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...interior cloister. Turning to the right along this hall leads to the library reference room and book-stacks. These stacks are large enough to hold the combined libraries of the Andover the combined libraries of the Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School. They are thoroughly fireproof, and lighted in the day time by skylights. Glass flooring allow this light to reach the lower floors...
...Seminary will provide a building which will contain a reading and reference room, accommodating at least 50 readers at one time, and a fireproof stack for at least 200,000 volumes. One of the requisites of the building is that this stack room must be capable of indefinite enlargement...
...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...
...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...