Bulletin of the United States National MuseumSmithsonian Institution Press, 1913 - Science |
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11 feet 11 inches 9 inches adjoining arches architrave attic story auditorium basement beams boilers building BULLETIN 80 PL ceiling light circular mils columns connected construction cornice corridor court walls dome east and west east range east wing elevators enclosed entablature entire extend feet 11 feet 6 inches feet 9 feet wide finished floor level front glass granite ground story Guastavino tile height inches high inches thick inches wide inner interior iron marble measure metal middle molded mullions muntins MUSEUM BULLETIN 80 NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN north wing occupied outer and court outer ends outer walls outlets panels partitions pediment piers pilasters plaster platform portico projection roof rows screens second story skylight Smithsonian soffit south pavilion space square feet stairs steel stone storage surface terra cotta terrazzo third story transom trusses U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ventilating vestibule west range west wings width wings and ranges
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Page 7 - Section 6. ... in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging, or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington, in whosesoever custody the same maybe, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by the board of regents to receive them...
Page 7 - That, so soon as the Board of Regents sh'all have selected the said site, they shall cause to be erected a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...
Page 12 - The committee adopted the following motion: "That under the limitations of the law the committee hereby report to Congress plan B for a new National Museum building as the best obtainable for the amount mentioned; but in the judgment of the committee the larger plan A is believed to be the one which should be adopted, and we, therefore, ask that Congress shall make the appropriation for it instead of for the smaller plan.
Page 7 - A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE BUILDING RECENTLY ERECTED FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF NATURAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM...
Page 12 - To enable the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to commence the erection of a suitable fireproof building with granite fronts, for the use of the National Museum, to be erected on the north side of the Mall, between Ninth...
Page 8 - ... belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of "Washington, in whosesoever custody the same may be, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by the Board of Regents to receive them, and shall be arranged in such order, and so classed, as best to facilitate the examination and study of them, in the building so as aforesaid to be erected for the Institution...
Page 12 - Ninth and Twelfth streets, northwest, substantially in accordance with the Plan A, prepared and submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution under the provisions of the act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Said building complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus and elevators, shall cost not to exceed three million five hundred thousand dollars, and a contract or contracts for its completion is hereby...
Page 133 - Public exhibition space: Anthropology: Ethnology, part of north wing and northern sections of east and west ranges, first story, 35,474 square feet ; archeology, north wing and east range, second story, 30,467 square feet 65,941 Biology: Mammals and birds, west wing and western section of west range, first story...
Page 132 - Library, east range 3,917 Mechanical plant : Boilers, machinery, shops, coal bunker and driveway for delivery of coal, east wing, 15,885 square feet; Ice machine and ventilating apparatus, south pavilion, 662 square feet; battery room communicating with north entrance lobby, 142 square feet 16, 689 Offices of buildings and labor, east range 1, 512 Offices of shipping, registration, property and supplies, with.
Page 95 - Corliss type, 19-inch bore and 18-inch stroke, without dash-pot cut-off, developing 250 horse power at 200 revolutions a minute. The fourth engine is smaller, of the plain slide valve type, 13-inch bore and 14-inch stroke, developing 130 horse power at a speed of 165 revolutions a minute. All of the engines rest on splayed concrete foundations, 5 feet thick for the larger ones and 4 feet for the smaller one, which are in turn underlaid and surrounded by 1 foot of sand. The generators are direct connected...