Word: fireproof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...previously announced, the building is being constructed of buff Bedford limestone and is classic in design. In the central part will be the library, lighted by numerous windows placed between the columns, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk...
...facade, which will face east, will exhibit a row of large Ionic columns, between which there will be a light screen wall filled with windows. The central part will contain the library of the school, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk...
...Boston, spoke last evening in Robinson Hall on "The Baltimore Fire." The Baltimore fire, he said, is the first to be studied carefully by architects and contractors throughout the country, and undoubtedly will result in many radical changes in building construction. Though it has shown that an absolutely fireproof building does not exist, yet the seven buildings of first-class modern construction which stood in its path suffered no structural collapse. Often the greatest damage was due to combustion of a building's contents...
...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...
...dormitory is now being erected on Mt. Auburn street, opposite Craigie Hall. The building will contain thirty-two single and double suites, a large swimming pool and a breakfast room. It will be built of brick with stone swimmings, and will be entirely fireproof. The building is owned by Mr. Henry Greene of Roxbury, and its name has not yet been decided upon...