Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plans drawn by Freeman, Funk & Willcox, the building will be 400 feet long by 170 feet wide, with a roof 90 feet high, and a tower over the entrance 150 feet high. The material of construction will be concrete reinforced by steel trusses and faced with terra cotta. The auditorium will have a permanent seating capacity of 5000, with the seats arranged in the arena pit form, and the ice surface about 6 feet below the level of the main lobby. Access to the ice will be afforded by four large passageways leading from a wide promenade in the rear...
Following is a list of the gifts: a votive head of terra-cotta from Veil, presented by Professor J. M. Paton; a large terra-cotta Roman lamp, presented by Mrs. Schuyler Rensselaer, of New York; a model of a Roman bit, presented by R. W. Lee '04; a small collection of amphora handles, terra-cotta ex-votos and brick-stamps from the neighborhood of Rome, presented by Dr. A. S. Pease...
...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...
...number of objects of ancient Greek and Egyptian art in bronze, terra-cotta and gold, indefinitely loaned by Mr. James Loeb '88, are on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. They include nineteen small bronze figures, including those of Heracles, Aphrodite, Hermes and Eros, two glass cinerary urns, several vases and a number of gold ornaments and engraved stones...
...Greek bronzes are very rare and costly, and this series will develop the working Museum in a new direction, while the vases of this collection are an important addition to former acquisitions in this class of objects. Among other important acquisitions are an ancient glass bottle, and a terra-cotta figure from Professor C. E. Norton...