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Title: American enterprise. Burley's United States centennial gasetteer and guide
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Burley, S(ylvester) W. (from old catalog) Kidder, Charles Holland, (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Philadelphia S. W. Burley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ground. It is of glass and iron, and of a unique design; it terminates ina colossal bell, from which the figure of Columbia rises with protectinghands. A figure of colossal size stands at each corner of the base of thedome. These figures typify the four quarters of the globe. Each paviliondisplays a window 30 feet high and 12 feet wide; it is also ornamentedwith tile-work, wreaths of oak and laurel, 13 stars in the frieze and acolossal eagle at each of its four corners. The arcades, a general featurein the old Roman villas, but entirely novel here, are intended to screen thelong walls of the gallery. These each consist of five groined arches. Thesearcades form promenades looking outward over the grounds and inwardover open gardens, which extend back to the main wall of the building.These garden-plats are each 90 feet long and 36 feet deep, ornamented in
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GROUND PLAN OF ART GALLERY. RE FERENCES. WALL SPACE. A South Halls 8680 sq. ft. B Middle Halls 7700 C North Halls 85;!4 1) End Galleries 824S 10 Pavilions 7i;.,8 F End Rooms of Corridor 2706 (i (.Corridors 7408 H Rooms (north).. 8044 sq. ft. I Rooms 5348 K Rooms 2612 L RLctption Rooms 4S94 FLOOR SPACE. M Reception Hall 495G N Centra 0833 E Pavilions 5088 Height of Picture fasteninRS above floor line 23 feet 4 inches. Galleries A, B, 0, D, F, G, N, are lighted from above. Rooms E. H, I, K, L, M, are lighled from the side. Rooms H, I, K, are repeated in the second story, and are 14 feet from floor to ceiling throughout. Height of Pavilions and Reception Hall 52 feel. Height of Centre Hall 77 feet. 669 670 BURLEYS UNITED STATES the centre with fountains and designed for the display of statuary. Astairway from the gardens reaches the upper line of these arcades, forminga second promenade, 35 feet above the ground. Its balustrade is orna-mented with vases, and is designed ultimately for st

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