BARNEY MEMORIAL SCIENCE HALL. 



Barney Memorial Hall is located in a beautiful situation, south of 

 the library building and the Academy dormitories, on the elevated slope 

 above the buildinos of Shepardson College. It is built of the best 

 Zanesville buff pressed brick, with the lower story and trimmings of 

 buff Amherst stone. It consists of a main central portion 50x70 feet, 

 four stories high, with two wings, each 46x36 feet and three stories 

 high The construction is very massive, with two thick interior walls 

 running lengthwise through the main portion and two others separating 

 the main building from the wings. The building is thus divided verti- 

 cally by heavy brick walls into five distinct parts. The foundation 

 rests for the most part on the bed rock below. This solidity of con- 

 struction is important in securing the necessary freedom from vibration 

 for the use of delicate instruments. 



The building is heated by steam, partly by direct radiation and 

 \nvt\y by indirect. A high pressure boiler is used, with an automatic 

 reducing valve which keeps the pressure on the building at any desired 

 point. Good ventilation is secured in the following way: in the first place 

 by introducing fresh air at six different points to steam coils from which 

 it passes to the rooms above ; in the second place by a system of foul- 

 air registers which communicate with two brick stacks about 7s feet 

 high, surrounding the high cast iron chimneys connected with the boil- 

 er. The heat of the inner iron chimneys produces a strong draft in 

 the outer stacks which rapidly removes vitiated air from the rooms. 



The building was designed by Peters & Burns, of Dayton, in the 

 colonial style of architecture, to suit the special recjuirements of labora- 

 tory use. It contains forty rooms, most of them adapted to some 

 distinct purpose. They are plentifully provided with blackboards, 

 sliding chart frames, dust tight cases, gas, water, steam, slate-topped 

 tables and fume cupboards for carrying corrosive or disagreeable gases 

 from the working rooms The plumbing is very complete, water being 

 distributed to about sixty points in the building and gas to many more 

 than than that. All sinks are provided with traps that can be readily 



