Construction of the Academy Building
The Original Building
The Academy building was constructed in 1810 with preference given to Stockholders for contracts of labor or materials, provided that they were furnished at fair prices (1810). The Trustees constructed a "stone house with one room finished sufficient for sixty pupils." 40 According to Treasurer's accounts, Jesse Phinton and William Thornton were the carpenters who built the Academy and James Dwyer did the masonry work and plastering. The carpentry bill totaled $147.13, plastering came to $32.62 and the masonry was $267.67. Several of the Stockholders provided materials for the erection of the Academy building. David Newlin provided plank and sawing, Samuel Leeke provide 2,700 shingles, Caleb Bentley provided pine plank obtained in Baltimore, John H. Riggs provided planks, and Whitson Canby provided timber. Stockholders also provided labor in addition to the materials when needed. Thomas Moore hauled 157 perches of stone, Joshua Cochran hauled lime, and Thomas Davis hauled the shingles that came from Samuel Leeke. The value of the plank, shingles and timber used in the Academy totaled approximately $141.50.

Other items used in the construction of the original Academy building were flooring brads, nails, screws, hinges, glass, glue, six bushels of hair purchased from William Woodward, 144 feet of inch plank, two locks and a bolt, 16 pairs of window hinges, 56 window lights, lime from Nathan Haines, white lead, whiting, one stove pipe, and a scutcheon.

40 "Report to the Legislature of the State of Academy, 1816," Brookeville Academy Minute Book, Vol. 1, 1810-1831, Montgomery County Historical Society Library.