Word: siting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this spring. The contract has been awarded to a New Haven firm, and in the contract there is a stipulation to the effect that the building shall be ready for occupancy by May, 1889. Before the new library can be commenced, the two old buildings which are on the site of the new library must be removed. They will be sold at auction within a few weeks. There have been no material changes in the plans of the building, which were chosen several months ago, but some of the details have been changed. The material of the building will...
...Leland Stanford, Jr., University, which is to be to the Pacific Coast what Harvard and Yale are to the East, is rapidly nearing completion. The site of the University is a spot in the foot-hills of the Coast Range Mountains about thirty miles south of San Francisco. The grounds are several miles in extent and slightly hilly. The general plan of the new institution is a hollow oblong six hundred feet long and two hundred and fifty feet wide, leaving a quadrangle within. Around the quaprangle connecting the buildings is an arcade which will be eighteen feet high...
...they treat of the society of Cairo. The city is situated on a sandy plain near the point of the delta of the Nile and is surrounded by objects of great interest-the Pyramids on the west, the Necropolis of Thebes on the south, and the obelisk marking the site of the ancient Heliopolis on the north. The name Cairo comes from the ancient Arabic and means "Victorious Capital." The city itself is not remarkably old, the first settlement being made in the seventh century in what is now one of the suburbs. For 250 years the Mamelukes in Cairo...
...land in the Port bounded by Main, Inman and Bigelow streets and extending back 250 feet on the two latter streets has been selected as the site for the new Cambridge City Hall which Mr. F. H. Rindge has offered to build...
...east, south and west stretches the unrivalled panoramafrom Pentelicus and Hymettus to Salamis. 'The view,' wrote the American Minister, 'is one of une of unequalled loveliness, even in this land of beauty.' Happily, the open ground on all sides promises to leave it to us forever. Moreover, the site is not only high, but dry, and, being what is practically virgin soil, is free from any suspicion of the malaria that infects the older and lower parts of the town. Yet it has an abundant supply of water, for the Aqeduct of Hydrian flows past the door. All the sanitary...