Word: basement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When, in 1874, Memorial Hall was fitted up as a dining hall, the kitchens and serving rooms were established in the basement; and a ceiling made of mortar on wooden laths was placed on the underside of the wooden floor-timbers of the hall itself. The apparatus installed worked well and safely for several years; but one day a huge pot of melted fat took fire on one of the ranges; and immediately the kitchens were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished...
...structure no exposed wood has been used. The floors are of concrete, the cases are of steel, and even tables and desks are of incombustible materials. The remaining section, including the central room of the older structure, will be raised to three stories, a basement, the ground floor, and two galleries, surrounded by steel herbarium cases, and illuminated by an overhead skylight designed to give an even distribution of light...
...addition to the club house prepared by the architects, McKim, Mead & White, have been accepted. They call for an addition on the properties Nos. 32, 34 and 36 West 45th street, and No. 31 West 44th street. They include additional office space and kitchen and serving arrangements in the basement; a new office, coat room, telephone booth and bar on the first floor on the 44th street side, and a large dining hall two stories in height on the 45th street side. On the second floor on the 44th street side is a large lounging room. On the third floor...
...journalistic baseball season winds up in a torrent of tallies on Soldiers Field this afternoon when those ancient rivals from the Mt. Auburn street tomb and the Union basement, respectively, cross steins in their 'steenth annual battle. The features of the game will be a corps of trained waiters who will serve refreshments without cessation on the second and third stations...
...occupants of such rooms as are to be used. According to the regulations of the Bursar, students intending to use College rooms for Class Day spreads are requested to notify the janitor as early as possible so that necessary arrangements can be made; they should also make application for basement rooms or extra space, if desired...