Wichita eagle., 1888-11-15
PRINCETON COLLEGE.
Tho Institution Is Shortly to Have o New
Art Museum.

The present is a period of building art
museums and galleries, and of general and
growing interest in everything pertaining to
Art, with a big A. This being the case, of
course no self respecting institution of learn
ing can afford to be without an art annex of
some sort.
Princeton is the latest college to acquire an
art museum, and they have been at WORK on
the building which is to hold it for some
time 1t is expected that the structure will
be completed by next summer The new
building stands on the high ground back Of
Wing hall toward the presidents house. 1t
will be the first of new quadrangle.
The art museum owes its erection largely
to the energy Of Allan Marquand, son of
Henry G. Marquand, Allan Mar9uand is
the professor of archaeology, and lectures on
art. Most of the subscriptions were raised
by him. The building committee are Moses
Taylor Pine, Professor Marquand and DR.. Nc
Gosh. The architect is Mr. A. Page Brown,
of New York He has done most of all the
recent work On the Princeton campus, in-
Guiding the biological laboratory and DR..
McCosh's new house. When he set out to
design an art museum at a cost Of about
$1,000, be decided to make it thoroughly
far as possible, to make it present the beau
ties of the Italian school
The front is $50 feet long. The depth
varies, for at each end there is a wing, and in
tho middle, at the rear, there is an extension.
The house is three stories high, the art gal
lery proper being ON the third floor, with an
immense skylight at tho top. The second
floor will be used for the collections Here
viii be placed the William G. Prime collec-
ton Of ceramics, which was presented to
Princeton on condition that fireproof build
ing should be built in which to store them.
Other collections also will be placed on the
second floor On the first the chief display
will be OF brorzes The top story, where the
pictures viii be hung, is 26 feet high, each Of
the others Is Is feet
The building is fireproof It is built Of
brick, a soft brown in color and speckled
with iron filings. The cornice Is Of cut stone
and the roof Of tile. The entrance is through
a broad arched doorway, which is approached
by an imposing double stone ssoop. A stone
terrace wall runs the length Of the building.
and before the doorway there is a circular
roadway. You may sec il the shade on each
side Of the broad stone step figure ike that
of man The one or the left is Michael
Angeles David" that on the right is Dono-
tellos st George The original Of each 10
in Florence Above the arch Of the entrance
are two Florenrne lamps Mr.. Brown viii
some time later have some old shields from
Italy on the now vacant space above ths
doorway.
TIE facade ia not O copy Of any particular
building in Italy, but Is thoroughly Italian
in tone. Toe face OF the structure prociaims
the purpose of the halL-a home for art
The two statues on tie steps strengthen the
idea and the tuo Tlorentine lamps viii illu-
inmate il Chief, however, Of these feat
urcs II tho frieB which surrounds the front
and the two sides Yo1 may sec where is
runs, tuss beneath the tiled root THIS -
an exact copy Of the Parthenon t7e1st The
casts came from tss British ursecul The
frieze itself viii be cast in terra Gotta T6s
model casts viii be placed in tie roussuEn-
Among all tbs figures On the two sides and
the ogss front wall there q Dot tupaca;zon-
The strip Of terra Gotta viii be a lir-le rEors
than three feet vide, and vii in. .isss3 b
ssudy n art