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Word: 50x27 (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...finest marble from Carrara has been used in the construction of each of the rooms. The first floor, aside from the spacious vestibule of white marble which runs the whole width of the building, is devoted to baths, rowing and swimming tanks. The rowing tanks, two in number, are 50x27 feet and 7 feet deep, each surrounded by white marble ambulatories four feet wide. The swimming tank of the same size is also surrounded with marble ambulatories and lounging galleries wainscotted five feet high all around with Italian marble, and is graded so as to be from five to eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Yale Gymnasium. | 4/26/1892 | See Source »

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