Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Broad oak stairs with a landing lead from the marble mosaic floor below to the second floor where is the General Committee Room with retiring room adjoining. On either side are two society rooms 17x27 with class rooms and a library...
...main dimensions of the new building are 73 feet by 88 feet. It is three stories high, and is of brick. The entrance is through a large door which leads to a spacious vestibule, the walls of which are of mottled Pompeiian brick. The floor is laid in mosaic tile. A broad, iron staircase leads from this vestibule to the third story...
Three or four steps from the vestibule at the entrance is a mosaic-tiled landing. A door to the left leads to another vestibule, which in turn has a door leading to the dean's room. The dean's room is about sixteen feet square, and it is fitted up in hard wood. From the landing already mentioned are four doors, leading to as many rooms, which are about twelve feet square. These are to be used by the professors. Two or three steps more lead to another and longer landing hall. This leads to two recitation rooms. They...
...stories above, on the second story there are two recition rooms, of the same proportions as those on the floor below. There are also five professors' rooms, similar to those on the first floor. On the third and last floor from the head of the stairs there is a mosaic tiled corridor leading to the study room. This is directly over the recitation rooms, and is 70 by 30 feet. To the right of the study is a space about ten feet wide, partitioned by a panelled screen. Rising from this screen is a colonnade. The columns are of fine...
...basement contains a large lounging room, a locker room in which there are about 190 lockers, and a finely appointed toilet room, which has mosaic tiled floor, glazed tile wainscotting and marble furnishings. In its interior arrangements the building is by far the most convenient and the decorations are much the richest and most costly of any structure connected with the University...