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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yDANCING CLASS. - Mrs. L. J. Chandler's dancing class, Odd Fellows Hall, Cambridgeport. Address, corner of Main and Inman streets. Private lessons...
...library building itself will be in the classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will...
...this level a platform with a railing will surround the drum of the dome, which will be of classic proportions, and whose summit will be 136 feet above the upper terrace and 152 feet above One Hundred and Sixteenth street, at the main entrance to the grounds...
...echoed on the eastern, western and northern ends of the cross by means of deep pilasters, and the internal angles will be adorned with richly-molded classic windows with consoles. Bronze doors in the centre of the portico will give access through a lofty marble portal to the main vestibule, paved with marble slabs, and whose walls will be decorated with marble pilasters, which will support a richly-paneled and ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways will lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the offices. Directly ahead the vestibule will open into...
...third story will be devoted to ten lecture rooms and to rooms for the officers of the college. The main depository for books will be situated in the basement of the building, which will be entirely above ground...