Word: wainscotting
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...dining and general club purposes; its dimensions will be 100 feet in length by about 40 feet in width and about three stories high. This large hall is patterned somewhat after the large Living Room of the Union, but has a stone floor, and stone walls above an oak wainscot...
...architects of the Harvard Union now have under consideration the treatment of the large living room on the south side of the building. Its floor dimensions are 100 feet by 40 feet and its height is about 35 feet. It is to be lined with an oak wainscot on all sides extending twenty feet up from the floor, something after the style of the Oxford college halls. The ends are to have an oak lining above the wainscot. There will be ample opportunity in the oak panels for memorials to graduates who have served the nation, or the University, also...
...principal room of the building, both architecturally and from the standpoint of the life of the club. This room will be forty feet wide by ninety feet long and will stretch up through all three floors to a roof of open timbers. There will be a high wainscot of oak around all the walls, which will be enriched by the seals and arms of the various College organizations, and at each end will be a large open fireplace with a carved stone mantle. The room will be furnished with settles, easy chairs, large and small tables, and writing desks...
...frowning gloom, on floor and wainscot fall...
...students who formerly attended the repasts spread in the bare and unpretending, nay, somewhat comfortless, salle a manger of the Thayer Club, their present quarters are particularly grateful; and yet, as their eyes recover from the dazzling and bewildering effect of stained-glass windows, groined roof, high wainscot, oaken floor and tables, venerable portraits, armorial plates, saucers, and sugar-bowls, and ebony-skinned attendants, the still, small voice of the stomach makes itself heard, whispering to them that what satisfies the eye and elevates the aesthetic taste does not completely appease the longings of the poor animal nature. The manner...