Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee: Of the City of Boston, 1858 The only changes of the year are the completion of the Franklin School House, on Waltham street, and the erection of a new school house at South Boston for the Lincoln School - to complete the reorganization of the Hawes and Bigelow Districts. Wood-cuts, show ing the elevation of the latter building and the arrange ment of the interior, accompany this Report. The gen eral arrangements of the building are those which our experience has approved, and with which most of us are familiar; but it is believed that the new school house will be more commodious even than that of the Dwight School. It is a fact honorable to Boston, that the most costly buildings for purposes of education, have been built in the outlying wards, not in the centres of wealth and fashion, and generally for the benefit of those citizens whose contributions to the public purse are smallest. South Boston is now better accommo dated with school houses than any other section of the city three new school houses (the Bigelow, Lawrence and Lincoln) having been erected on that peninsula; and the Phillips School District in the centre of that section of the city which pays the largest taxes, -is more imperfectly furnished than any other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.