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...between Winthrop and Mount Auburn streets. The building will be the property of Isaac McLean and Son; and the contract has been given to Locatteli & Company. According to the plans of the architect, the dormitory will be a four story structure, and will be built of brick with a lime stone finish...
...south of the Peabody Museum. There will be three stories, with a frontage of 80 feet and an extreme depth of 84 feet. The latter dimension includes the rear addition, which will be 56 feet wide by 24 feet in depth. The building will be constructed of brick and lime-stone, with a granite base and steps. The interior construction is strictly fire-proof with concrete floors and no wood-work whatever. A complete system of heating and ventilating will be introduced...
...house which is being built for the Harvard Club of New York by McKm, Mead, and White is nearly finished and will probably be ready for occupancy before the middle of May. The building is three stories in height. Its exterior is built in the colonial style, of Indiana lime-stone and red brick. On the middle of the upper story, between two white medallion windows is a square stone which bears the shield of Harvard. There are some two dozen rooms in the building. The cost will approximate $55,000. The sum was raised by subscriptions from the Harvard...
Perkins Hall, which is to be on the westerly side of the street, will be 286 feet long, 44 feet wide and four stories in height. The building is to be of rough brick with trimmings of Ohio lime-stone, and the architecture is practically of the colonial order, much like Hollis and Stoughton. There will be four entrances, two on the Oxford street side and two on the Jarvis field side, so that the building will eventually face on the quadrangle when the field is built upon...
...whole structure, since the mountain regions give the main clues to the great geological movements. They represent the tracts of country which have been formed the longest, parts of them having always remained above water. The sediment washed by the sea from these protruding tracts has formed lime-stone and sand stone about their edges and the strata of these rocks is therefore much thicker here than in regions like the Mississippi basin which have been often submerged. One of the great theories of mountain formation takes these sedimentary rocks and their overloading of the earth's crust...