BIDS ASKED FOR FEMALE ACADEMY BUILDING, 1814,
A House for a Female Academy,
At Louisburg, 30 by 20 feet, two stories—11 and 9 feet pitch—two rooms above, 18 by 20, and 12 by 20, feet—three six-pannelled doors— four 18 and four 8 light windows below, and six 15 and four 8 light windows above—to be built of good hard timber—with two chimneys of brick or hewn stone, and underpinned with the same—to be ceiled within, and painted without, entire, will be let by the undersigned Commissioners, on Saturday the 2d day of July next, at Louisburg. Workmen are * * * required to complete work by the 25th of December next.
Richard Fenner,
Richard Inge,
Joel King,
Wm. Murphy,
Green Hill,
Commissioners.
Louisburg, June 6th, 1814.
—Raleigh Register, June 24, 1814.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |