Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-23

hho INV fOfyhtAl Ihloce NalA % Utmost I
miracle, The famous doines Of BfunelIischi
Michael Angelo and Wren, at The Fiorenc,
Cathedral, 81. Peters and ST. Paul's, win al
be surpassed By the TIVE domes Of this ne "
buildinR oinl hfralh sati go
Al length the designs for the qreat erhi.
bition building in 1862 are comnleted ana
drawn, The bnilding for the display of 1857
differs, in many essential particulars. from
itspredecessor. II will be much larger. more
cOmmodioua, much more imposing N its az
terror, while from Without its aspect will
be of almost impressive maQnitude and
grandeur. Glass and iron are no LONGER 10
be the chief features in the design. ESter-
naily they appear only TO be used where
lightness with ornamental effect is needed ;
a1dl therefore, when they are introduced
with these ends in view, they are managed
with q good taste and architectural effect.
which, viewing the design as whole, makes
II one Of the most beautiful of the kind that
has probably ever been reared. This remark
as 20 the comparatively limited use Of iron
and glass, of course, applies only to the ex-
terior. y The inside, as heretofore. will he
entirely fitted with iron columns and grid.
err, but arranged in more Gothic form and
style, and with keener view to picturesque
effect than in 1851. The exhibition build
lpg OF 1901 occupied in all nearly twenty
three acres; that about TO be erected will
cover a little over twenty.six.
The flooring space of 1851 was lust short
Of 100000 feet In the proposed building
there will be ], l4o,O 600, but, as It is intended
TO exhibit machinery and agricultural i'm!
plements in a wing especially built for the
purpose, the space occupied in 1851 by these
classes will be at the disposal of the Com.
mlsslopeTs for other works, SO that praeti-
cally there will be some 5000 feet Of floor
ing more in 1852 than in 1851. The greatest
night IN 1901 was l60 feet and the main
nave running from end to end was sixty faet
high by sevebty-two wide. The greatest
blight of the proposed building will be 26O
feet, and the nave will be l,200 feet long bv
80 wide, and 100 feet high. The total LENGTH
of the first exhibition building was $500
feet by 400 high. The dimensions of the
present are to be l,2OO feet long by 700 broad
exclusive of the space set aside for the dis .
play Of agricultural Implements which is in
rough numbers 1000 feet long by 900 broad.
The contractors price in 1851 was ESQ, 600.
Mesers. Kelk Il Lucas contract to furnish the
edifce in this instance for G200, 900, though
in reality it will cost 93O0,O but the pay
ment of the extra 100000 is conditional on
the gross profits exceeding 950O, 900, as they
did in 1851. N0
The buildings will be erected at Kensing-
ton, in front of the new grounds of the Hor-
ticultural Society, which they will inclose.
One side of the edifce abuts upon the Crom-
well road, the main entrance on the Exhibi.
tion road, and the third side on Prince
Albert-road, the fourth or rear side faces i'm.
mediately upon the grounds of the Horti-
cultural Society. Externally the building
will be, as we have said, 1900 feet by roo,
though the ground plan shows that in some
parts the width is diminished to 800 feet.
The average hight will be 100 feet, nearly
sixty of which will be solid brick work.
Taking one of the main sides of the build.
ing, on the Exhibtion-road, as an example,
il will present lofty recess facade, from the
center of which will rise superb dome of
glass and iron to, the immense hight Of $50
feet, with the base of the dome of no less
than l60 feet in diameter. These-for there
are to be two, one at each end of the build
iDg-will be the largest domes ever built
That of St. Pauls is only 109 feet in diam
eter at the base, and even st. Peters is only
l39. These domes are to be reared over the
intersection of the nave and transepts at
right angles, and as the floors beneath both
will be elevated above the level of the floors
of the rest of the building, an unequaled
view will be got from here through almost
every part of the vast interior. One mag
niicent nave will be continued from this en-
trance in the Exhibition road to the extreme
end of the building in the grounds of the
Horticultural Society, and at the termination
of this the second dome will rise. The nave
is, therefore, to be ], 200 feet long by So feet
wide and 100 high. The transepts, in which
it terminates at either end, will be each TOO
feet long by eighty five feet broad and 100
feet high, All the roofs will be of wood,
coated with felt, and meeting in the center
Mt an angle, like the roof of Westminster
Hall and most of our old oathedrals.
The effect, however, from the interior will
not be that OF an angular roof as the girders
will be arched and colored, and on these the
eye will naturally rest. The method of
lip htiDg the interior is one of the best. that
could be devised. In the building of 1851
all the screens that could be made were in
sufficient TO keep down the glare of the sun,
while on wet days all the care of the plumb
ers could not prevent the rain from dripping
in. The wooden, painted roof does away at
once with the chances of rain in the pro-
posed ediice, and the new method OF light
ing will have equal advantages. On the side
walls, beneath the roof of all the naves and
transepts, will be clerestory, twenty five
feet high, of glass and iron, which, with the
light from the domes, the glass and entrance,
and the windows in the walls, will make the
light as equal as it was throughout the
building in 1851; while, from the fact of this
one being erected due east and west, the
glare of the sun is obviated.
The galleries and interior columns of the
structure are exceedingly beautiful in de-
sign, and so also is the design for the iron.
work clerestory. The columns to carry the
galleries are double, twenty-five feet apart
and twenty. two feet high. To these will be
fastened the broad galleries which run all
round the building, though the columns
themselves will be continued up to the
cleIestory, to where the springing of the
roof commences. Each of the main en-
frances beneath the dome will be sixty feet
high by hfty wide, with two smaller porches
at either, forty feet by fifteen feet. In addi-
tlon to tnese there will be three entrances
on each side of the building, facing the
Cromwell and Prince Albert-roads, each of
which will be fifty six feet high by twenty
two feet wide. The picture gallery will run
the whole length of the structure and will
be situated on the Crom well-road- side. This
will be built of brick, with wall thickness
of about two feet.
The picture will not be hung higher than
two and quarter feet from the floor; there.
fore only the upper portion of this immense
wing, IT it may be go termed, will be used as
the gallery for modern art. The basement
story will be set apart for the exhibition of
and road vehicles of all kinds. The
picture gallery will be lighted by cleres.
tory, as the other parts of the building. By
dividing the space allotted to the paintings
by brick wall down the middle longitudi-
Dally, two galleries are made, running par
aIlel with each other, and each fifty-fiye feet
wide by thirty. five feet high. Thus alto
gether, the Commissioners have length of
Wall-space Of 600 feet at their disposal, or
a a little more than double the wall-space of
the Manchester Exhibition,
Inc space set apart for machinery and ag-
rlenltural implements will be in a kind of
special wing erected for the purpose on the
opposite side of the building to that on
which the picture gallery will be situated
On the inner side Of this department and he.
tween implements aud the horticultural par
den, the kitchens will be built for the va
rous refreshment departments. The whole
design and all the plans connected with the
building are the work of Captain Fowke, R.