Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Emerson Hall 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 a receding porch and flanked by columns two stories in height...
...Dyke is known throughout the country as a liberal thinker. He is at present professor of English literature at Princeton, where he graduated in 1873. He was pastor of the Brick Congregational Church of New York for a number of years and delivered the memorial ode at the 150th anniversary of Princeton. He is one of the preachers to the University and Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale. Dr. Van Dyke is the author of "The Poetry of the Psalms," "The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems," "Ships and Havens," and several other books and poems...
...contagious ward at the Stillman Infirmary, which is now ready to receive patients, was provided for by a gift of $75,000 from Mr. James Stillman of New York, and was designed by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, of Boston. It is a brick structure about 80 feet long and 40 feet wide, built in the same style as the main building, with which it is connected by a semicircular passageway two stories high. The upper story of this passageway is an open colonade, provided with which it is connected by a semicircular passageway two stories high. The upper story...
...development of the mastaba-tomb--so called from its resemblance to the mastaba or typical seat of the Arab house. In prehistoric times the most elementary form of the mastaba served alike as a protection to the corpse and as an altar for ancestral offerings. The grave was brick-lined, and roofed over with wooden logs or slabs of white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular stone structure with sloping...
Work was begun last Monday on a concrete foundation four feet below the ground. Above this will be erected a large brick base with decorations of white stone, upon which will rest a square pedestal of Knoxville marble, will be executed in herole size by Mckim, Mead and White, of New York. A stone settee, ten feet long, will be placed in front of the statue, and the windows on each side of the niche will be bricked up in order to give greater prominence to the bust...