Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Emerson Hall will be 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 will be Greek, and the building materials brick and limestone, to correspond in effect with Robinson Hall. On the west, fronting the quadrangle, as in Robinson Hall, there will be imposing entrances, set in receding porches, and flanked by columns two stories in height...
...building materials, brick, stone, marble and granite were unable to stand the severe tests put upon them. Concrete and terra cotta offered the greatest resistance. Concrete, however, was not exhaustively tested, and terra cotta contains clay, which expands when heated. The ideal material must be at once cheap, hard, flexible and abundant. No city has enough fireproof buildings; thus no city is exempt from such fires as the Baltimore fire...
...President Eliot's residence, and will form a quadrangle with Sever and Robinson Halls. It will be 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 will be Greek, and the building materials brick and limestone to correspond in effect with Robinson Hall. The entrances, which will front the Yard and the quadrangle as in Robinson Hall, will be in style receding porches with brick columns two stories in height, and should prove very imposing...
...days, work will be started on a new dormitory on Mt. Auburn street, next to Claverly Hall. The building will be a seven-story structure of brick and limestone, and will be built and owned by Isaac McLean. It will be equipped with an elevator, a house telephone system, both gas and electric light, and steam heat. It will also have squash courts. There will be seven double suites, one on each floor, and thirty-four single suites. In addition to a bath, each suite will have its own shower. The dormitory will be called Ridgely Hall, and will...
...Agassiz house will occupy the corner of James and Mason streets, on which site a brick schoolhouse now stands. The architecture will harmonize with that of the Radcliffe Gymnasium, and the structure will, be built of Harvard brick, laid with broad, white mortar joints. The interior, which will also resemble the Gymnasium in finish, will have trimmings of marble...