FIRST ACADEMY BUILDING, 1802.
To Builders.
Persons inclined to undertake the erection of a suitable Frame Building for the Raleigh Academy, of the following Description and Dimensions, are desired to deliver their Proposals in Writing, on or before the first Day of July next, to Nathaniel Jones, Esq. of White Plains, or to* J. Gales, Raleigh. The Building is to be two stories high, pillared on Brick or Stone 2% Feet high from the Ground, 40 Feet long, 24 Feet wide, and 12 Feet Pitch below and 10 feet above, clear, with a Brick Chimney at each End, two Doors and eight Windows below, the Windows to contain 18 Lights, 12 by 10, and 10 Windows in the second story, 18 Lights 8 by 10; two Rooms 12 Feet square to be taken off from one End of the upper Room: The whole to be built with good Timber, to be ceiled with Plank throughout, painted Inside and Outside, and finished in a workmanly manner.
May 24. J. Gales, Sec'ry pro. tem.
Raleigh Register, May 25, 1802.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 
