Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to make it more convenient for all the men in Perkins to use the new dormitory living room, doorways are being cut on all the floors through the brick partitions which divide the north and south parts of the building. The work will be completed by the end of next week...
...buildings are constructed on the outside entirely of white marble, from Dorsot, Vermont, instead of limestone and brick, as was originally intended. The esplanade connecting the buildings is also constructed of white marble. On the front and rear of the Administration Building there will be porticos, each with six massive columns rising up as high as the cornice. Work on the buildings commenced two years ago last November. The contract called for their completion in two years, but, owing to bad weather conditions and strikes, progress has been considerably delayed. As all the buildings cannot be made ready for occupancy...
...liquid air machine and motor for running it, purchased out of the laboratory funds, have been placed in the basement of Boylston Hall. A special brick room is being built around the machine and the entire arrangements for its use will be completed soon...
Work on the section of the Yard fence and gateway begun in the early part of September, has been delayed for a week by the need of special brick to be used in the cornice. The gateway will cost about $15,000, and, it is hoped, will be finished by the end of November. The mason-work of the fence, which extends from the Fogg Museum along Broadway to Robinson Hall, is now finished, but the iron-work will not be put in until the masonry of the gateway is built. Between the openings a drinking fountain in the form...
...building is 143 feet long by 73 1-2 feet wide, three stories high, and will cost, with furnishings, about $200,000. The general type of architecture is Greek and the building materials, brick and limestone, correspond in effect with Robinson Hall. On the west, fronting the quadrangle, as in Robinson Hall, there is an imposing entrance, set in receding porch and flanked by columns two stories in height...