The facility provided its charges with separate rooms, arranged in three-story cottages with kitchen, dining, and other public facilities on the ground floor, rooms for the girls and a housemother on the second, and space for teachers on the third floor.

[2] This school paved the way of social reform, moving away from child imprisonment towards a correctional paradigm.

The campus includes eighteen historic buildings, dating from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.

There are three wood-frame buildings on the campus from the 18th century, all farmhouses which were standing when the state acquired the land.

[3] A number of the buildings are residential "cottages", which had common spaces on the ground floor, and sleeping arrangements for both students and staff.