Architectural engineering. With special reference to high building construction, including many examples of Chicago office buildings (1895)
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ater-supply anddrainage, were carried in fire-proof pipe-spaces especiallyprovided. The water-supply is pumped from the citymains, by pumps located in the basement, to storage tankson the twentieth floor, with a combined capacity of 7000gallons. On the twentieth floor also are four… … Fig. io.—The Masonic Temple. Burnham & Root, architects. SKELETON CONSTRUCTION. 35 Each office and store has a private wash-basin, with gen-eral toilet-rooms and barber-shop on the nineteenth floor.The main toilet-room contains 64 closets, besides addi-tional rooms on the third and twelfth…
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