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...story brick addition is being built, which will be used as a laboratory for the Mining and Metallurgy Department. The building will be a brick shell with a flat roof and will have a smoke-stack 50 feet high. It will be 79 feet long and 40 feet wide. The southern half will be fitted u with appliances for fire-work and will also have the new assay furnaces. In the northern half there will be a Reverberatory roasting furnace, a cupola furnace and a Bruckner revolving roaster, besides some gas furnaces and melting furnaces for illustrating the metallurgy...
...building is entered by a broad flight of steps, leading to a vestibule 24 feet wide and 8 feet deep. One side of it is partly occupied by a spiral fire-escape, reaching to the upper floor, and inclosed so that it is not visible from the outside. Passing through the entrance, a hall 13 feet wide extends through to the rear of the building. On the right is a lecture room, 30 feet by 50 feet. The floor will have an incline of about 4 feet, and it is expected that the room will seat 250 persons...
When completed, it will stand on Divinity Avenue, facing east, about 75 feet south of the Peabody Museum. There will be three stories, with a frontage of 80 feet and an extreme depth of 84 feet. The latter dimension includes the rear addition, which will be 56 feet wide by 24 feet in depth. The building will be constructed of brick and lime-stone, with a granite base and steps. The interior construction is strictly fire-proof with concrete floors and no wood-work whatever. A complete system of heating and ventilating will be introduced...
...interior as a covered piazza would do. This entrance opens direct y into the large living-room on the first floor, which is to be the 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...
...main drawing-room, 140 feet long and 30 feet wide, will fill the entire north side of the upper floor. From this room open dirctly a smaller drawing-room on the south east corner and a library on the southwest...