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...theatre of Aropus on Northeastern Africa. The structure cuts off the curved end of the Stadium where the spectators will be seated, and represents the palace of Agamemnon at Argos. To break the monotony of the front of the palace, a portico resembling the front of a Doric temple, a simple pediment upon four columns, is being constructed in the centre. Through this portico the exits and entrances to the palace will be made. Mr. J. L. Smith of Boston supervised yesterday afternoon the painting and decorating of the palace. The main walls of the central por- tico will...
...continued to form the roofs of the towers. It will be of concrete and will be supported by columns, 14 feet high, resting on pedestals which are already built in the parapets between the upper promenade and the last row of seats. It will be finished with a Roman Doric Cornice...
...exhibition hall, 52 feet long and 32 feet wide, is to be devoted to a valuable collection of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance casts. This hall will extend upward through two stories. In the rear of the ground floor there will be a corridor, separated from the exhibition hall by Doric columns supporting the corridor of the upper floor, on which is a similar series of Ionic columns. A large lecture room, a stereopticon gallery, a smaller lecture room, a room for the display of working models and building materials, a coat room, three small rooms for instructors, and a janitor...
...Bulfinch Memorial tablets have been set up in Doric Hall at the State House. The inscriptions on both tablets were written by President Eliot at the request of ex-Governor Wolcott. One is in memory of Charles Bulfinch, and one is commemorative of the preservation and renewal of the State House...
...Fogg Art Museum last evening by Mr. Edward Robinson. He took for his subject Greek Architecture, and showed that its chief development was in the temple, which was always perfectly simple and as far as possible a unit. There was no individualism shown and the only differences in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian forms were in matters of detail...