Word: tile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Iowa University is building a club house for the entertainment and care of visiting athletic teams. The club building will have a trophy room, reception hall, bedrooms, lockers, showers, dressing rooms, and a tile swimming pool. The approximate cost...
...nearly complete. The color of the ceiling, as well as the polished stone pillars and side columns, is a deep yellow. The lighting is accomplished by means of diffusion glass, which will be in place in a month. The plastering here, as throughout the building, is finished, and the tile work is rapidly coming on. The book cases for this room have been ordered; the massive centre tables are ready and waiting to be inserted...
...building is three stories in height, with a loft for storage purposes. The structure is absolutely fireproof, and represents the latest ideas in current construction. The floors, roof and stairways are built of reinforced concrete, while the outer walls are of brick and the inner walls of hollow tile blocks. The roof is slated, and has, on the top, a flat runway, on each end of which a steel lattice-work tower for supporting wireless antenna is to be erected. These have not yet been erected, but will be in place in a few weeks. The building contains 25 rooms...
...ground was broken for the new Widener Memorial Library, and the corner stone was laid with impressive ceremonies on June 16, 1913. The exterior work on the building is now completed, and the plastering which is at present occupying the workmen, will probably not be finished until August. The tile work, floors, painting, and decorating still remain to be done...
...Sizer and his proof readers care to take this seriously, let it be known that the game can be arranged for any day after the mid-year period. Further- more one might add by way of warning that although we may not dwell in halls of imported tile, we are the boys who put the ink in rink; aside from this we have destructive qualities and although we hate to make "light" of a serious subject we feel that we could take the lamp out of Lampoon. Be all this as it may, our forwards are alert and our wings...