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Robert L. Stuart, painted by Daniel Huntington
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Text Appearing After Image: ROBERT L. STUART SECOND PRESIDENT 1872-1881 FroTn Museum Portrait by Daniel Huntington ROBERT L. STUART Calvert Vaux was selected as the architect. The grand design Originaloffered by Mr. Vaux was accepted. It contemplated for the entire °^^^edifice a hollow square whose sides were to be formed of four greatbuildings 700 feet long, ornate in material and detail, and distinguishedby large entrances of architectural dignity and strength. The wholestructure was intended to cover fifteen acres and fill a space threetimes larger than the basement area of the British Museum. A build-ing of this great size would embrace the most diverse and appositekingdoms of nature. The exact sciences might even find here a home;and the technical applications in the arts, room for the exhibition oftheir numberless adaptations. On June 2, 1874, the corner stone of the first section of the Museum Dedication,was laid with great ceremony. The President of the United States,the Governor of the State, and the Ma
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Source | Image from page 32 of "The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909" (1911) |
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