Let our lower sash be filled by two large
panes in modern style, and these are represented by two courts
surrounded by pavements, and shaded by large sycamore trees. In the
engraving just referred to, the spectator stands in one of these
courts, looking over a low wall into the other. For the top of the
lower sash, we have another building, extending across the premises.
The left half of this appearing on page 131, behind the trees, and
on the opposite page represented without them, was the first home of
Dr. Perkins, and is now the Female Seminary; but repeated additions
and modifications have been required to transform a building,
originally erected for a private residence, into a structure
suitable for such a school.
Miss Fiske first taught in one room of a building to the right,
which does not appear in the engraving, though a part of it is seen
on page 131; then, as the school grew larger, another room was
added, and when those quarters became too strait, this building was
remodelled for its use.
[Illustration: Female seminary at Oboomiah]
As we shall have a good deal to do with the Seminary in these pages,
let us become familiar with its home.
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