The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-03

When thete drawrg engraved and laid before the
public suppose they will be- We think there
viii be difference OF opinion that the building to be
erected according TO them will be Of remarkable
character
Let us 90 into detail little Reservoir square, Of which
thu municipal au hories have given the association
lease lies city people know west OF the Croton
distributing reservoir. and bet ween that mighty mass o.
stem and the sixth avenue The precise distance from
the TO the Sixth is 445 feet and the
width north and south from Fortieth Forty second
street is 455 feet On this piece Of gronnd-not very
yora bic it must be owned eli her in shape location
the association have determined erect the building in
que OF which the plans have been selected among
several competitors Of whom may be mentioned, Mr.
SsI he architect OF the orIbrary; Mr. Downing
@urosied boasd the Henry Clay; Mr.. Eidlitz, Sin
Jcsepb psxion and others.
The successful competitors Messrs. lrstenen s.
Go.n,iester Nr Gildemieser has been time set
tied among and 10 EVIDENTLY nom the drawings. not
oliy architect but artist. AIR Christensen is the
designer - the rvo and Casino of Copenhagen, the
pr"cipai public grounds of that city. The directors
have in selecting plan from this side OF
tue wafer aud Ia not going To England for one.
TIE main features OF the building follows =
T5e general idea the edice Is Greek cross surmount-
ed by dumo at the intersection Each diameter Of the
will be- ID feet inches long There will be three
airci,sr enuances--ons on the Sixth avenue, Que on
Fo''ieth and one on Forty second street Each en-
trance win Or AZ feet wide and that the Sixth
wiz be approached by ght of eight steps. Each
the H. ground plan 140 feet broad This is d
vidcd into central and two ai,les, each
sice~ me Al feet wide each aisle "a feet wide
large semi circular flnlight II feet broad
aud II feet h'gn, answering to the arch OF the
The central portion, is carried up the height
m fg.t nd tha ninira nv who
spspreo IL Al feet broad There hus, in effect tw
archd crossing each other at right angles, Al
see bread 81 feet gh to the of the arch and 365
long aud each side of these is aisle 81
srosa nj % feet high The exterior of the rdgeway of
,hn il IL feet The central dome is 100 feet in d.
nueter0 feet inside from to the spring OF the
a,ct, end us feet TO the crown and the outside
With the lantern, If9 feet. The exterior angles
II the building ingeniously filed UP with
sort Of lean 10 "a feet high, which gives
the ground plan ociagonal shape, each side or
face being lag feet wide At each angle ocagonal
tower eight feet in diameter, and rs feet high Each
aisle covered by gallery of its width and q feet
rom the floor The famous old church OF San vitas at
asvenua, is ny the way the only instance any
sid able bpiding that at this moment recolect OF
oeiagoral nape- but is diameter is only les feet
Nov few words as to the size and proportion Of this
tdthcs On entering the observers eye will be salutod
~ The vita Of aIcbcd Al feet wide 81 fset high,
Srd 2c5 feet longs while approaching the centre he
viii ond himel npder a dome 100 feet across and 1IS
feet high. few comparisons will show little what
THIS viii look Ike The Cfoon Aqueduct is itself 40
feet bi-h il VII, be quite overopped Trinity Church
i lsq ct long 10y 81 FEET wide and 81 feet high The
City Hall i 2io feet long 1o5 feet wiie AMI including
tie attic. IS feel high
I'll" Re ervolr square nave will thus be twice long
q Trinity Church andneary twice long as the City
nan.
Tbs Capitol at Washington comes somewhat nearer.
Iat n,uding he wings is 252 feet in length and each
n,Ps 2 feet deep; the rotunda is IS feet in diameter
the Top Of the DOME 12O high So il the eye
Gould Lave clear sweep from the extreme end of the
senae chamber through the Rotunda, to the
oh.r sxtrcme 81 he House Of Representatives the mind
would set pretty good idea Of half of the Crystal
palaes. hat building being, have sid Greek
Of equal proportions would present visas like
Ills
for ought therefore, must come to the iney
,La conclusion. that thi. building will be larger an
Elective, IN its interior view than any thing in tn
county II 40 the edce will be great show Of itself
Gas building contains, ON its ground -four, Ill 900
square cet q SPACE and in ts galleries which 81 fee
g. COO square feet more making total Of 173,
81 sGu feet, for the purposes Of exhibition. There
thus IN the ground floor two and
hail, exactly 2-52 100; in the galleries., one
ond I4.1o0 -tota within inconsiderable
fraeton -four There the ground floor one
hundred ond ninety columns q feet above the floor in
cles diameter cast hollow Of different thicknesses from
half inch inch thick the gallery floor there
hundred and twenty-five columns
Now TO compare this building with of the great
foreign wonders st Paus of London, is five hundred
iest long and this beats the Reservoir square Palace
Bu St pauls has only 81 O25 square feet its ground
floor and is thus the whole, decidedly smaller. st
Peters Church. at Rome is 600 feet long, and
sqrate feet SO that Crystal Palace will be, the
ground oor just half the size OF st Peters-but with
the galleries the available in St. Peters only one
MFR larger But the true rival will probably be thought
70 be the Hyde Park Paxton Building now erecting at
sy3cnbam. That building SlS feet long by 4OS feet
broad thus giving on tho ground floor seven hun
dr,d and hfty.thre thousand, nine hundred and
eiehy.four square feet, and with the transept
eighteen acres. Our building only one-eighth
Of tie ground occupied by the Hyde Park
ster, but the available space, with the galleries
is bout fifth sixth But it Is plain enough
that depe pdent Of the question where large build
ing the Palace should could be put it would
he very absurd to erect one here of such gigantic
dmessions The Atlantic not yet quite abolished, and
the business Of crossing the ocean to fill the building
with goods worthy to be exhibited would be good deal
serious than crossing the English Channel Be-
sides the Enghsh building very fur from being filed
with any thing that any body desired TO see There
great many two penny matters in it, and good
deal upoccupd space The New York Crystal Palace
Is large enough fer purposes in all conscience As
tie architectural eject and beauty Of the building
there will be sort Of comparison The general idea Of
the Reservoir square bulldng-that of Greek
wi Il dome the centre though not by any mean
l. approved architectural effect 1t is no
than Ichael Angeles idea Of ST. PETERS, before Carlo
Msdano altered it 20 its present proportions In fact
eaying lie Iansep which matter of accident
imagined by Mr. Henderson to the Gins the Hyde
raik buloing was nothing less than a large
box aud had just much architecture about II might
hove been expected from people devoid Of taste
English This perfectly well understood ther
then md nov
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