Word: skylight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...level of the delivery room floor. Space will be taken out of this second and third floor of the stack for a staircase to the reading room. This new apartment vestry in the upper stack, will have a new roof for its ceiling, which will have a skylight running its whole length. This roof will be as far above the floor of the new reading room, as the suspended plaster ceiling was above the old one. The windows will be stripped of their old tracery and diamond lights, and fitted with clear glass. Tables with reading rack and swivel chairs...
Passing through the left hand room one comes to the tank. This is about 57x30 and extends through the depth of the building. The room is well lighted by windows at the ends and a skylight from above. The tank itself is lined with zinc and fitted up with a big rowing machine to accommodate the crew. A border of floor surrounds it on all sides...