The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 183
day nearly twelve hundred personssat down to the Commencement dinner. It is one hundredand sixty-four feet long, fifty-nine feet wide, and seventy-five feet high to the point of the roof, which is supportedon hammer-beam trusses of Southern pine. The walls above,below, and between the windows are… … 132 THE MEMORIAL HALL. Upon the plain surface above are hung the College pictures,with marble busts standing upon brackets under the trusses.At either end of the hall is a gallery. The window over thewestern gallery is twenty-five feet wide by thirty high, and isfilled with stained glass. • • • • •…
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