Chris Eckenrod April 2003 Social Studies/English Being an apprentice to the architect of the Presidential home isn’t easy. Mr. Hoban, my employer, expects the work from me, a 14-year-old kid, to be as good as an experienced architect. My name is Chris Eckenrod, a 14-year-old kid who moved to Philadelphia from Western Pennsylvania when I was 12, so I could become an apprentice to an architect named James Hoban. The living conditions are ok. The three apprentices get one room in a house to sleep in. We do our work in a big room on the first floor, and eat in the room next to that. When we are working on a design, the hours are tough, working from sunrise to mid-day and from mid-afternoon to sunset, every day. On Sundays we have less hours. We work from mid-afternoon to a little after sunset. My first design project is for a meetinghouse in a small village just north of Philadelphia. I am planning to use the normal meetinghouse format, a rectangular room with rows of tables and chairs, but change it a little. The design would have a small curve to the meetinghouse, with the floor in the front raised for the speaker.
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