Word: fireproof
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...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...
...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...
...feet wide, and thirty-four feet high and will contain seven rooms. There will be no basement, but the building will rest on a specially constructed concrete foundation. No wood is to be used in construction, except in the doors and windows, so that the building will be entirely fireproof. It is expected to have this addition finished by the first of next August. When it is completed, the available space for storing photographic negatives and valuable books at the Observatory will be about doubled...
...from the Union. The building will be four or five stories high and will contain about one hundred rooms. The cost will be $250,000, about half the cost of the hotel as originally planned. The building will have all modern improvements except that it will not be absolutely fireproof...
Professor Hollis spoke of the difficulties which had been surmounted in the construction of the boat house, and alluded to the generosity of Alexander Agassiz '55 who added to the gift of the New York Club enough to make the house entirely fireproof...