Word: corners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chittenden Memorial Library is rapidly approaching completion, while the foundations of the new recitation building, money for which has been given by an unknown friend of the university, have been laid. Its architecture is a mixture of Romanesque and Arabesque happily blended. That part of the building toward the corner of College and Chapel streets, near the site of the historic "fence," is to be partly circular in form and to have twelve sides. The stone work above the entrance arches will be magnificent. The arches are to be supported by polished marble pillars...
LOST, on Wednesday, between corner of Garden street and 11 Mason street, a silver key-holder and three keys. A reward will be paid on their return to 11 Mason street...
...dimensions are 210x120 feet, and the material used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material has been but little used as yet in this vicinity, and the house of Dr. Bradbury, at the corner of Marlboro and Exeter streets, is almost the only example. The bricks are laid in red mortar, and mottled terra cotta will be extensively used in the decoration of the interior. The basement is of rock-faced brown stone, and dark purple Maine slate will be used to cover...
...Agassiz and Peabody Museums, for which the foundations were laid before the close of last term, have been pushed forward so rapidly during the summer that they are now almost ready for roofing. This makes a great advance toward the contemplated union of the two buildings, though the missing corner will probably not be supplied for several years. The extension of the Peabody Museum is about forty feet in depth, and will be devoted mainly to exhibition rooms. The addition to the Agassiz Museum is 110 feet long, and will be used for botany, geology, and physical geography. The central...
...have a new library which will cost $250,000 and will be one of the finest in the country. It will be capable of containing 400,000 volumes. The architecture will be plain and dignified, and the most imposing feature will be a high tower at one corner, in which will be placed a large clock and the college chimes...