Word: domes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...handsome and capacious new buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, extending from Massachusetts avenue in Cambridgeport along the Charles River Basin, half way to Kendall square, are now structurally complete, except for the great central dome, and the front of the Library. The work has been in progress for two years and there remains now to be done only some interior work on the main buildings, and the erection of the Mining Building. This though now just started, will be finished with the rest, and be ready for occupancy next September. The Pratt School of Naval Architecture alone will...
...main Institute buildings are arranged in a great quadrangle, open toward the river, the portico of the Library, surmounted by the dome, occupying the central position. They are made of reinforced concrete, and are absolutely fireproof, the floors being stone, and the stairs iron. The total cost of their construction has been estimated at $10,000,000, and the lot on which they are built contains fifty acres. This includes the new athletic fields, which are already in use, and boast one of the best tracks in the country...
There can be no doubt that we live in what the late Samuel Clemens has named "The Gilded Age." The pilgrim to Boston beholds from afar the shining dome of the State House. The lobbies of our caravanseries out-shine Solomon in all his splendor. But at times there comes a feeling that perhaps the thing is a trifle overdone. The undergraduate departed last summer, thanking Providence and the benefactors of the University that at last the Charles was spanned by a suitable structure. He returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down...
...rooms, located exactly in the centre of the building and at the head of the grand staircase. These are in special memory of Harry Elkins Widener in whose name the library was donated. The first of these is a Memorial Hall, finished in white Italian marble with a dome overhead, and the inner room, which is finished in dark wood, contains the famous Widener collection. There is a large fireplace at the end of this room above which is a portrait of Harry Elkins Widener. These rooms are well lighted by windows opening upon court-yards on both sides...
...Physical Colloquium. "Equation of State and the Vapor Dome." Professor H. N. Davis. Room 3, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...