The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-10-03
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When the three great museums of
he Greater New York are completed
In the years to come there will be
given TO the country and the world
groups Of art palaces the like of which
the world has never before seen.
They will represent an expenditure of
| S5O,OOO,OO0 exclusive of the priceless
collections which will find shelter
within the spacious walls of the insti.
.utlons. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art will be the largest building de.
voted to art in the world; the com.
pleted museum of natural history will
oyershadOw the British museum, and
the Brooklyn Institute museum Is
| planned along the same magnificent
| ines. In the case of the last named
the eastern wing, recently finished,
completes an entire front of the struc-
:ure, including the corner towers. In
the case of the Natural History
museum the great outer wall has
| finally turned the southwestern corner
and Is being carried some distance
| northward. The new wing Is the first
Of the great side walls of the building.
The Fifth avenue facade of the Met.
ropolitan museum is being carried this
| gear nearly a block northward from
he main entrance. The new wing is
particularly interesting, since It is the
| irst wall to be built besides the en-.
| rance, on the outer line of the build.
ing The museum will ultimately in
| rlose the great hollow rectangle.
whose longest dimensions will parallel
| Fifth avenue. The main buildings of
| he museum today, those in red brick.
will in time be completely inclosed.
| rhe outer walls will be of light gray
stone. The cost OF this building when
completed, It Is estimated, will be
s22,OOO,OOO Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke
said recently that he believed the
great museum would be completed in
.en years, when 1t will certainly be the
| thief architectural feature of the city.
/ some idea of the proportions of this
| building may be had from the state
nent that the present Fifth avenue
| 'acade, nearly two blocks in length, Is
.ess than onefourth the length of the
completed eastern front
The new wing is built of some.
what lighter stone than the main en-.
| rance. The same alignment Is main
aimed. It is two floors in height, with
| 4 basement, One Of the features of
the new addition Is spacious lecture
| lall opening from this wing into the
! inner courtyard. The need Of such a
| lull has been felt for years The walls
If the new wing on the inner courts
are of white brick, and the greater
part of the roof Is Of grass. The in.
error is designed with the same eff,
iect of lofty spaciousness so charac,
tcristic of the older halls Of the
museum.
The management of the museum
| has long been embarrassed for room
| and the new wing will be quickly
aiken up, The second floor, according
to the present plans, will be devoted
| to Robert Fulton and Hendrlck Hud,
son and their times, The display of
| these collections will have n peculiar
Thickness in view of the approaching
| Hudson anniversary. 1t Is probable
that the Hcnchel collection, the prop.
erty Of Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan, will
also be allotted space in this wing
Although the new wing, MS seen from
| the street, appears 10 be practically
complete, II Is not expected that It
will be regularly thrown open to the
public for some months.
The Natural History museum will be
carried a step nearer completion this
year by the opening Of the south wing
Of the west facade and by new ap,
prOach 10 the central power house and
tower. The museum, it Is perhaps not
| generally realized, will ultimately
! considerably exceed in size the
| British museum. It Is now nearly "a
| years since the first hall was built
one Of the interior wings, which is
now almost completely hidden Since
| then the entire south facade has been
completed. an avenue block In
| length.