Word: courtyard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large courtyard in the centre is the key to the whole arrangement. It will be 125 feet wide and 90 feet deep. Across the rear, fronting on the Niles house, will be an ornamental iron fence, with gates on Linden and Plympton Sts. From the court there will be entrances to the stairways, each of which will serve two suites on a floor. There will also be two entrances on Bow St. As that street is lower than the level of the court the building will be one story higher there than on the court. The only corridor...
...interior finish will be quartered oak, the main corridor paved with marble, and the front and rear staircases handsomely panelled. Six entrances are provided from the streets and courtyard. A passenger elevator, the only one in a college building, will make the upper floors most desirable, commanding, as they do, a view for many miles. There are in the building fifty-five studies, most of them with swell windows, fifty-five bathrooms in the finest open plumbing, ninety-four bedrooms, two shower-bathrooms, and a general room containing 2000 square feet of space. All studies have open fireplaces and radiators...