Word: truss
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...most important interior feature of the new building is the noble library hall, a room of grand proportions, with a triple-arch roof supported by iron truss-work, so that the floor space -113 by 75 feet-is unbroken by divisions. A gallery makes the circuit of it and the walls within reaching distance of the floor and of the gallery are lined with that best of decorations, books. The general arrangement is by subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with...