Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entrances to the stairways, each of which will serve two suites on a floor. There will also be two entrances on Bow St. As that street is lower than the level of the court the building will be one story higher there than on the court. The only corridor is to be on this lower floor, giving access to all the stairways from...
...seems to be not as yet generally known by members of the University that in addition to the casts and other objects in the lower rooms of the Fogg Museum, and the photographs displayed upon the walls of the upper rooms and corridor, an extensive collection of photographs representing works of art of all epochs and all countries-embracing architecture, sculpture and painting-is stored in cases, and is always accessible on application to the Curator's Assistant. The illustrations of Greek and Greco Roman art, of Mediaeval art, and of the arts of the Renaissance are practically exhaustive. Every...
...upper floor, in the main corridor, a series of photographic reproductions from drawings by Italian and German masters of the Renaissance, together with some solar enlargements from Photographs of the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, and other Greek monuments, are permanently placed. The main galleries on this floor will, for the present be used for the display of photographs illustrating the arts of various schools. Those now on the walls of the larger gallery illustrate the works of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, while in the smaller gallery a selection from the designs of the earlier Italian masters will...
...second story there are two recition rooms, of the same proportions as those on the floor below. There are also five professors' rooms, similar to those on the first floor. On the third and last floor from the head of the stairs there is a mosaic tiled corridor leading to the study room. This is directly over the recitation rooms, and is 70 by 30 feet. To the right of the study is a space about ten feet wide, partitioned by a panelled screen. Rising from this screen is a colonnade. The columns are of fine proportions...
...interior finish will be quartered oak, the main corridor paved with marble, and the front and rear staircases handsomely panelled. Six entrances are provided from the streets and courtyard. A passenger elevator, the only one in a college building, will make the upper floors most desirable, commanding, as they do, a view for many miles. There are in the building fifty-five studies, most of them with swell windows, fifty-five bathrooms in the finest open plumbing, ninety-four bedrooms, two shower-bathrooms, and a general room containing 2000 square feet of space. All studies have open fireplaces and radiators...