Both the town of Royalton
and the Royalton Academy originally used the two-story building.
The first floor of the building consisted of a large room that was used
as the Town House. A partition wall, which extended the entire width
of the building, was placed approximately eight feet back from the main
entrance.
This wall served as a division
forming an entrance hall, and provided access to the town hall and the
stairs to the second floor (located on the Northeast corner of the building).
The wall has since been removed.
The large room on the first
floor that was used by the town as the hall is a rectangular shaped space
with wooden benches and a small platform towards the back of the building.
Eleven rows of single benches are placed on a single line in the center
of the space and on the sides there are two rows of benches facing the
center of the room. The floor is wood and the walls and ceiling have
been plastered. There is a thin wooden surround around the windows.
A wooden bench is built into the back and sidewalls. The bench is
slightly elevated; the back meets the windows at their base. In the
center of the room, there is a row of wood squared posts with chamfered
corners and an old stove with a new aluminum vent tube that goes up to
a chimney shaft through the center of the room.
On the second floor, the
building is divided into three spaces; a large room toward the back, which
was used as the academy’s classroom, and two smaller ones in front.
The town used the small room on the West corner of the building, and the
Academy used the one room on the opposite side as an “apartment”.
The detailing on the second floor is similar to that on the first floor:
wooden floors and simple wood surrounds around doors and windows.
The walls and ceilings are plastered. In the large room used as the
Academy classroom, the shadows of the desks are still present in the walls.