Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole building embraces an oblong rectangular space of about 130 feet on Kirkland street and about 200 feet on Divinity avenue and Frisbie place. But the Museum proper consists of two wings of unequal length, placed at right angles to each other, the longer one facing Divinity avenue, the shorter one stretching from Divinity avenue to Frisbie place, parallel with Kirkland street, but set back from it some 100 feet. The space between the two wings is conceived of as an ornamental court, with shrubs, statuary, and waterbasins, connected with the Museum itself by cloister-like arcades running along Kirkland...