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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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d in sizeonly by the palatial AgriculturalBuilding. The east and west frontswill have three magnificent arches,which will comprise more than halfof the entire facade. Each of thesearched openings will be 64 ft. wideand 52 ft. high. Through thesearchways fourteen permanent rail-road tracks will be laid from one endof the building to the other. At thesides of these three openings theprojecting angles will be accentuatedby tower or pylon effect, reaching toa height of 150 ft. to the base of thecrowning statue. On the north andsouth fronts the architect has deemedit well to repeat the three massivearchways, which will form the centerfeature of smaller fronts. This treat-ment is intended to break the un-wieldy facade of 1300 ft. On thenorth and south fronts the pylonfeature will be omitted, but massive piers will be repeated at intervals and lend dignity to the design.Flanking these three openings on the long fronts will be greatrows of magnificent windows as wide as the archways. Not only
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will visitors be admitted through thesidiary entrances will be provided atmaining stretch of walls. Over each twelve huge portals, but sub-frequent intervals in the re-of the big archways will be a August i6, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 223 lofty curve, which supplies a background for the architecturalfeatu res. The statuary will be placed in front and at the base of the mainpiers at the sides of the grand openings. This affords sixteengroups, which will illustrate Transportation in all its phases aswell as the progress made by the United States in this science.There will also be four groups of statuary surrounding the fourpylons, placed at the east and west fronts. The architect hassubdued the use of sculpture in the building, depending on masseffects and on the grouping of masses; that is. on architecturerather than on tawdry decorations. The entire width of the build-ing is spanned by five well designed uniform trusses. Specialendeavor has been made to afford plenty of illuminat

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