Word: stairway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pharmacy or drug room, and apartments for attendants. This floor will be lighted from above and from the sides. The third story will contain work-rooms, harness-room, hay and grain loft, and a bedroom for the house surgeon. This floor will be reached from the second by a stairway, as well as by the elevator. The elevator will be large enough to take up the largest animal treated, and will be used in taking up the ailing horses, etc., brought for treatment. The building is to be heated with steam, and will have water on every floor. It will...
...could not the part to be opened to visitors be kept clean? Why could not smoking be strictly forbidden? Why could not extra insurance rates be met by charges for each person?" We would respectfully re-enforce the questions of the Advocate by the following three: Why was the stairway so constructed that it runs through all the dirty part of the tower? Why will men wish to do just what they are forbidden to do? Why could not some waiters be detailed to take the "gate-money" and to keep general peace up in the tower during the visiting...
...stairs. Continuing straight through the porch into a large vestibule 14 by 18 one can turn either to the right or to the left, both doors leading to a students coat room 12 by 14, with accommodations for three hundred students. From the easterly coat room a stairway leads to a students' lavatory in the basement. From this room also the students' general room is entered, a nicely finished ball, 20 by 33, with a large bay window 19 feet wide and a carved fireplace. Around the walls of this room are a large number of lockers, each...
Ascending the main staircase, we come to three professors' rooms on the first landing. These are placed in a Mezzanine story and are similar to those immediately below. At the top of the main stairway, on the second floor, is the large reading room, 63 by 70. This occupies the part of the second floor on the north side, over the large lecture room. Here are all the facilities for reading in quiet and consulting the large number of books which the law student finds to be necessary. Fifteen large tables, each one 15 feet long by 3 1/2 feet...