The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-13
CITY INTELLIGENC
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The Cornerstone of the New building to
be Laid on Thursday Next.
The Building Committee of the Board of
Trustees of the University OF Fennsylvanta,
Cresson, Frederick Fraley, Alexander Henry
N. B. Browne and ]. Vaughan Merrick have
issued card announcing that the cornerstone
of the new building designed for the accommo-
dation Of the Collegiate and Scientific depart
ments of the University, on Locust street, west
of Thirty.fourth, will be laid on Thursday
afternoon, at o'clock. The ceremony will be
performed by John Q. Cretson, Esq, on behalf
of the Trustees aud short addresses will be
made by Provost Stille, Mayor Fox, and Hon.
F. Carroll Brewster LII. D., President of the
Alumni Association. Professor t. NJ. Richards,
architect, has furnished us with this descrip-
ton of the plans of the building in question, as
follows:-
The building has front on Locust street between
Thirtyfourth and Thirtysxth streets) OF 454 feet,
bsv windows, buttresses. ETC. with an additional
projection Of the CENTRE 81 feet 10 inches beyond
the wings. The cellar is arranged for the storage OF
COAL and an apartment in connection, outside Of the
building, is provided for the boilers OF the steam
heating apparatus. The basement on the sides and
reer is entirely above ground, 15 feet high. There
is entrance in the rear for students TO tue assem-
east and west ends to a wide corridor, which ex-
tends the whole length OF the building, In all the
stories. The eastern wing contains ins:-Laboratory,
80 by as feet, apparatus and store-room, "a by 20
Ieet metallurgical laboratory 80 by SO feet ure-
proof furnace-room "a by 81 feet, balance room, Ia
gold assaying. The western wing contains :-Laoo-
Tatory, 80 by % feet, and apparatus and diagram
room "a by 20 feet, for the chemical lecture-room
on first floor, one laboratory 80 by 90 feet, and one,
"a by 81 feet for the physical department.. Apart
mens for jantor and assistants arranged on this
floor for machinery storage dumb walters walter.
closets, etc. The first or principal moor s 10 feet
high On the eastern side OF the main entrance Is the
feet professors laboratory, 10 by As feet preparing
laboratory, 81 by "a feet qualitative laboratory, 80
by as feet quanttative laboratory, 80 by so feet,
laboratory for organic analysis, "a by 81 feet two
balance room ana two assistants rooms OR the
western side is the reception and secretarys room,
13 by % feet trustees and faculty room, 10 by 81
feet, provosts recitation ROOM "a by 33 feet, and
private room IA by IS feet, chemical lecture room,
80 by 45 feet physical lecture room, 30 by so feet
and apparatus room, "a by 81 feet. The library In
centre of rear Al by so feet is entered from hall "a
by 40 feet. This part Of the building is 1re-proof
The second floor is 10 feet inches high. The
building and is 70 feet high The eastern side con-
tatns lecture-rooms for civil engineering, mining
and metallurgy and mneralogy, and large mu
scum for these departments. The western side and
rooms, with adjoining private rooms. The third
floor s IA feet high and contains three large reca
ton rooms, lecture and model-rooms for mechani-
cal engineering, three large rooms for the study
and practice OF drawing In the departments of Civil
and Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, etc. A
large examination hall Is in the rear OF the chapel
The fourth floor, over the chapel, has two society
rooms for students, each with an adjoining
library. The design is in the collegiate Gothic
style the material to be used is Leperville stone
for the basement, with base course OF Hummestown
brown stone. The walls above are to be serpentine
marble, with cornces, gables arches, etc., of Ohio
stone. The entrance porch is to be OF Franklin
stone with arch supported on polished red granite
columns, with enriched capitals OF Ohio stone. The
windows of chapel and gables are deco, ated with
geometrical tracery.