Word: basement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...like to call the attention of the board of directors at Memorial Hall to the advisability of taking steps to carry out a suggestion that was made some time since, viz., that the side room at Memorial corresponding to the auditor's room, or else some room in the basement, be fitted up during the summer as a lavatory or wash-room, for the use of boarders at Memorial. There is no question that such an improvement would be a great convenience, and could be made at slight expense. If the corporation can possibly be prevailed upon to permit...
...will be fitted with a carved fireplace like that in the large reading room. Leading from this is the dean's room, which also opens into the reading room. The finish on this floor will be entirely of hard pine with exposed beams, as on the first floor. The basement of the building is given up to the lavatories for professors' and students' use, the boiler rooms and two large unpacking rooms from which an elevator runs to the librarian's room. All goods can be loaded and unloaded at the rear door of the basement, as the ground slopes...
...driveway. Looking at the structure from the front, the first noticeable thing which strikes the eye is the harmony of colors displayed in the use of the stone, the main part being constructed of brown sandstone from E. Longmeadow, Mass., the cornices and lintels of Ohio stone, while the basement is of red Westerly granite. The architecture is what might be called a free treatment of the Romanesque, with the decoration mostly concentrated about the porch, which is very large and effective, giving the impression of a memorial building, as was the wish of the donor, in the memory...
...each end by eight isolated columns of polished granite, while at the extreme ends of the side arches are four similar columns. From the extreme right of the porch runs the spiral staircase in the turret by which professors may either descend into the private lavatories in the basement or ascend into the large room provided for their special use up stairs. Continuing straight through the porch into a large vestibule 14 by 18 one can turn either to the right or to the left, both doors leading to a students coat room 12 by 14, with accommodations for three...
...loss the Advertiser says : "Of the Shepard mineralogical collection, valued at $70,000, the meteors were valued at $30,000, and are not injured. Of the remaining $40,000 worth, a considerable proportion will be found susceptible of further use, for many specimens have been found undestroyed in the basement. The loss upon the philosophical collection will be about $15,000. It is believed by the best informed persons that the insurance - $70,000, and $50,000 additional, besides $15,000 for the philosophical collection, will place the college on as good footing as before the fire. To offset...