Word: longmeadow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Contractors are preairing bids for the new library building at Yale, for which S. B. Chittenden, of New York, has given $100,000. The walls will be built of dark Longmeadow stone, with trimmings of a lighter shade, and work will begin this winter if the contracts are made. Its cost will probably be $125,000, and Mr. Chittenden has promised to make up the deficit...
...informed the trustees that it would be in accordance with the known wishes of that gentleman that his legacy of $50,000, when paid, should be used for the erection of a library building. The proposition was satisfactory to Mr. Rollins. The library is of brick and Longmeadow red stone, tasteful and convenient, and strictly fireproof, capable of holding 165,000 volumes. The college library now contains 65,000 volumes, well selected. It is surpassed by not more than three college libraries in this country, and is rapidly growing under the system of careful selection, and is undoubtedly the best...
...candidates from which the crew will be taken has been published hitherto. As is well known the famous "yank" of 1882 and 83, has been discarded and in its place the old stroke of eleven years ago, introduced from England by Bob Cook, which won Yale the race at Longmeadow in 1873, has been revived under his careful supervision. Mr. Cook is amply satisfied with the material at hand and expects them to win the race next June when they shall have become fully practised in his method of rowing. Much interest and enthusiasm is shown by the men. Several...
...feet, the front steps being within 50 feet of the driveway. Looking at the structure from the front, the first noticeable thing which strikes the eye is the harmony of colors displayed in the use of the stone, the main part being constructed of brown sandstone from E. Longmeadow, Mass., the cornices and lintels of Ohio stone, while the basement is of red Westerly granite. The architecture is what might be called a free treatment of the Romanesque, with the decoration mostly concentrated about the porch, which is very large and effective, giving the impression of a memorial building...