Word: semi-circular
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...will be two stories in height and will have a front of 115 feet and a depth of about 114 feet. The building will be divided into two main sections; the front of the building, which will be subdivided into smaller rooms and the rear, which will be a semi-circular lecture hall with a seating capacity of about seven hundred. Entrance to this theatre will be on both sides of the building. The main entrance, however, will be from the front and will lead directly into the cast museum, a large room 64 by 28 feet, situated...
...third side of this central reading room, and connecting it with the stack of Gore Hall, there will be a semi-circular delivering room, where books from the library may be called for and returned...
...which were prepared by a New York firm, has been rapidly pushed and the foundations are now completed. The building, situated between North Sheffield and Old Sheffield halls, is in the shape of a parallelogram 108 feet by 84 feet and with four stories. At the entrance is a semi-circular granite porch, supporting granite columns...
...material of the building will be North Haven pallet brick, trimmed with bands of pressed brick and terra cotta. It will be finished in hard wood, heated by steam, and will have the latest modern improvements in plumbing, etc. The entrance will be through a semi-circular stone and brick porch...
...theatre consists of three main parts: the auditorium, the orchestra, and the stage buildings. The seats for the spectators covered the slope of the hill, in semicircular rows. Aisles divided the auditorium into thirteen wedges and two-thirds of the distance to the top was a semi-circular passageway or "Diazoma." The upper rows of seats were hewn from the stone of the hillside, the lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra...