A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 36
terin very large rooms stored with inflammablematerials, as in warehouses and all departmentstores which are open over large floor areas. If the construction of the floors and thecovering of metal is everywhere what it oughtto be, the integrity of the stnicture will bepreserved; but there seems no… … It 1 -estei ■. 1)C( I sug- tliat, while the woodwork used in finishing floors and walls ;but the building can be made so that the fireneed not extijnd to ai^joining apartments. Ifthe jirotectirig material is indestnictible, if thepartitidiis and division walls are framed every-where with metal and…
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