I've put up a post (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=41483.0) which I think covers the mundane stuff of the parental handover then gets them out of the picture.<br/><br/>I was looking for some pics of large colonial style New England houses and selected one for the school. It might be a bit smaller than you intended lacuna but its shape is pretty much perfect with a projecting front and two side wings that can represent the storage areas and pupils dorm on the lower floor and maids dorm on the upper. It has no front balconies but we can imagine those.<br/><br/>I added a scene of the parkland too, I hope that's OK (just ignore the different house in the distance and imagine 'our' one).<br/><br/>There's this place too. You can choose:<br/><br/>(http://www.oldhousejournal.com/magazine/2004/june/images/CR_45.jpg)