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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of demolishing Gore Hall will be finished about. March 1, according to present arrangements. The contract for the work has been awarded by the George F. Payne Co., Philadelphia, to Elston and Swift of Boston, and calls for a completion of the work within 48 days. This includes the complete destruction of the building, and clearing of the ground...
...contract for the construction of the Widener Memorial Library has been awarded to a Philadelphia builder, whose name is not yet announced, calling for an expenditure of $1,400,000. As was planned the building is to be of brick and marble, three stories in height, 210 by 275 feet and containing a specially fire-proofed section to house the Widener collection...
...present known when the work of construction of the Widener Memorial will actually begin, but it will probably be during the holiday period. The letting of the sub-contract for the work is in the hands of the head architect, Horace Traumbaeur, of Chicago who will have full supervision of the construction...
Certain work has been omitted from the contract, such as interior wood finish, wall decorations, diffusing sash (which will be used in the vestibule, the first story of the main hall, the Widener Room, Memorial Hall, and the hall in front of the main reading-room). The marble work will also be a special contract. The corridor floor of the second story, the stairs, toilet rooms, and the walls and ceiling of the small side vestibule are to be of Rutland or other approved clear white marble, while all other marble work will be of light pink Tennessee marble...
...doaden the sound. The elevator doors will be of metal and the others of wood. On the first floor there will be telephone booths for the use of patrons of the library, built in as part of the building. It may be said that the specifications for the contract call for the last word in library construction, and Harvard may well feel proud of its million-dollar library made possible through the munificence of Mrs George D. Widener of Philadelphia