Word: roof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dormitory nearly completed at Yale is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide. It is four stories high with a steep gable roof with dormer windows. It is built of rough-faced Longmeadow sand-stone and its general appearance is very much like Durfee Hall. Three entrances open on the campus and 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms are to be the accommodations. It will cost about...
Work on this building is rapidly progressing. The roof is now on and the outlines of a very handsome school building are seen. This building will be the first fruits of the re-endowment movement and will be a very greatly needed addition. At present it is necessary to hold quite a number of recitations daily in a private house...
...roof of the new boat house was nearly completed last night. It is hoped that everything will be working normally by Thursday next...
...roof of the Harvard quarters has been reshingled and the house generally renovated. A new boat house will be built, with quarters in it for Charlie Hart, which will probably be ready for use this year. The new shell which Davy is building will be ready soon. It is a beautiful boat, made of cedar. There are diagonal braces running from the seat bearing to the rising, and to keep the boat from rolling or sagging heavy iron diagonal braces are fastened across the bit from the gunwale and attached to a supplementary gunwale below. The boat...
...roof of the new Yale gymnasium is to be entirely of glass. It will be the second largest roof of the kind in the country...