Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...east end of the Rotch building on Holmes Field a one-story brick addition is being built, which will be used as a laboratory for the Mining and Metallurgy Department. The building will be a brick shell with a flat roof and will have a smoke-stack 50 feet high. It will be 79 feet long and 40 feet wide. The southern half will be fitted u with appliances for fire-work and will also have the new assay furnaces. In the northern half there will be a Reverberatory roasting furnace, a cupola furnace and a Bruckner revolving roaster, besides...
...living-room on the first floor, which is to be the principal room of the building, both architecturally and from the standpoint of the life of the club. This room will be forty feet wide by ninety feet long and will stretch up through all three floors to a roof of open timbers. There will be a high wainscot of oak around all the walls, which will be enriched by the seals and arms of the various College organizations, and at each end will be a large open fireplace with a carved stone mantle. The room will be furnished with...
Work on the University boathouse has been progressing rapidly, and it is likely that the building will be completed by early summer. The exterior of the house has been considerably changed from the design of the first building. The main roof has been made several feet lower and the pitch reduced, leaving a nearly flat top, 44x50 feet. Three dormer windows at each end of the second story take the place of the row of smaller windows in the original plan. The four projecting balconies at the corners thus appear as towers, 21 feet square, rising above the main roof...
...These are all high backed with sufficient rise for the occupants of each seat to have a clear view over those in the seat below. A heavy plank floor between the seats and a dashboard at the back and bottom give rest and prevent injury to clothing. The arched roof of the cars is so supported that no obstruction whatever exists to a clear view, while at the same time protection is given against showers. The cars are decorated and painted in crimson and blue...
...main dining room will occupy an entire floor and will be so arranged that it can easily be turned into a general meeting room. On another floor will be dining rooms for the classes and for smaller parties. The other floors will be given up to bed rooms. A roof garden is one of the contemplated features...