Word: roof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...feet beyond. The brick columns flanking the two entrances have been finished and all the limestone window-frames and trimmings are in position. In the two lower stories rough underfloors have been built and rooms laid out. Little further work will be attempted inside the building, however, until the roof is started...
Plans for the organization and management of the club, which is to be known as the H--Y--P Club, have been definitely made, and the committee in charge has selected rooms on the second floor of the "Golden Roof" building, one of the mediaeval structures in the "Tyrolean Alps." The rooms are decorated in old German style with highly colored mural figures, to which have been added the flags and coats-of-arms of the three colleges. A dining-room, separate from the public cafe, but served from the same kitchen, will be reserved for members and guests...
...building which is six times as large as the original structure. When the new addition is opened the building will extend through the centre of the block between 44th and 45th street, permitting an entrance, however, from 44th street only. With the exception of the mansard roof, the outer frame-work has been entirely completed, and the handsome granite front gives the structure an imposing appearance. During the summer months some changes will be made in the old club house to make it conform with the new addition...
...restaurant in the old club can with difficulty accommodate fifty people, the space in Harvard Hall will provide for two or three hundred. The fourth and fifth floors will be occupied by bedrooms to accommodate out-of-town members. Two squash courts are to be built on the roof. The architects for the new addition are McKim, Mead & White; the contractors are Norcross Brothers...
...this theatre, the inner, outer, and upper stages were developed from existing conditions, the gallery and a small roof protecting the players from the rain. Three curtains were used, the "travers," which separated the inner from the outer stage, the "arras," which concealed the entrances to the inner stage, and a long curtain drawn across the upper stage or gallery...