Word: roof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There will be a large addition to the library space on the second floor and on the third floor there will be committee rooms and private dining rooms. The fourth floor will contain bed rooms, a roof garden and several squash courts...
...form two large circular halls. The second story contains very few windows and is too dimly lighted to serve as an exhibition room. In order to remedy this defect it has been decided to take up the entire third floor and to put sky lights in the roof of the building...
...arrangement of the building in the form of a hollow square leaves a court about fifty feet square, all of which will be used for a large swimming pool, protected from above by a glass roof. A large circular hall finished in stone will extend up to the top floor and will have corridors leading from it in every direction so that access may be obtained from it to every part of the building. Work will continue on these improvements during the spring and summer and it is expected that the rooms will be ready for occupancy by next September...
...camp a working room for draughting and study. Drawing boards and all surveying instruments will be taken up in the early part of June. It may be found advisable during the first summer to have an encampment in tents, with only dining room, kitchen, and work room under a roof...
...talk about the new era it had inaugurated in the life of the island. The fourth day they appointed a committee to care for the treasure. And thereupon the committee, after much consultation and three adjourned sessions, proceeded to surround it on all sides with a wall and a roof a foot thick. Since then the sundial has been preserved most admirably. As to its practical use, however, it has been much like a purely democratic club with a ten dollar annual membership...