656 REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



above the laboratory will be divided into three apartments, one 15 by 14, as a private 

 room for the lecturer ; and the other two 12 by 25, one of which will have strong 

 tables all around, and the other fitted with closets, drawers and shelves, with sash 

 doors, as above, all around. 



Sash and glass. — All the windows of every kind, size, and description, in every 

 part of the building and towers, both interior and exterior, will be fitted with square 

 sash, set diamond wise, and filled with the best English crown glass. The windows 

 will be hung in frames with cords, weights, and pulleys, and will be finished in 

 every respect in the best possible manner. 



Inside windows, balustrades, gallery fronts, carving, <^c. — There will be two circular 

 windows in the central hall (per plan of library) carved of the best white pine ; also 

 one triple or two double windows between the Kegents' room and the rear stairway, 

 and 12 triple windows in the clerestory of the west wing. These will be carved in 

 the best manner, of the best white pine, according to the directions of the architect. 

 All these windows will have frames and sash, and be filled with glass as described 

 above. Their mullions will be of wood, painted four (4) coats, to resemble the walls 

 of the interior, and sanded. 



There will be open balustrades three feet six inches (3 feet 6 inches) high, of black 

 walnut, or of best white pine painted and grained, as may be directed, carried all 

 around the front of the galleries of the museum and library, as well at the ends as at 

 the sides, per plans. The balusters will be circular pillars with turned bases and 

 carved capitals, supporting carved trefoil arches, over which a handsome moulded 

 top rail will be carried, per plans. 



The gallery front of the great lecture-room will consist of pillars with carved bases 

 and capitals, as above, supporting semicircular carved arches, over and under which will 

 be a large hook label mould, well and deeply sunk, all of black walnut. At the dis- 

 tance of two inches (2 inches) behind this arcade, a wainscoating of one inch black 

 walnut boards, not more than four inches wide, and set vertically, will be carried 

 around to form the front of the gallery, and from the top of the label to this wains- 

 coat a top board of black walnut 1J inch thick will be carried, to form a book board 

 for the gallery front. 



The gallery front will be four feet six inches (4 feet 6 inches) in height. 



The gallery fronts of the chemical lecture-room will be framed of strong 3 by 10 

 inch timber, which will be wainscoated on both sides four feet (4 feet) high, with 

 f-inch black walnut boards, not more than four inches in width, capped on the out- 

 side with a handsome label, and having a label mould at bottom. And, in general, 

 all the work necessary to make the gallery fronts complete, is to be performed. 



Stairs. — The principal front stairs will consist of two double flights, one on each 

 side of the entrance hall. The steps will be five feet three inches (5 feet 3 inches) in 

 width, and the well will be from eighteen inches to two feet (18 inches to 2 feet) in 

 width. There will be a seven inch square carved newel to each flight, with the sides 

 handsomely paneled. 



The balusters will be octagonal pillars, with turned bases and caps, having a semi- 

 circular arch with a trefoil head between them, and will be surmounted by a top rail, 

 4 by 6 inches, handsomely moulded. The stairs will have handsome coves and 

 brackets hanging down below the underside of the steps. The steps will be sup- 

 ported by wrought-iron frames, properly put together to insure stability. The risers 

 will be of the best white pine, and the treads of the best Georgia yellow pine. And 

 the underside of the stairs will bo furred ready for plastering. 



The stairs will rise from the ground floor to a point four feet (4 feet) below the 

 under side of the roof timbers, say a height of forty-three feet (43 feet) or thereabout. 

 At this height the upper platforms or landings will be placed. At one end of each 

 of these a door will be placed which will communicate with the front towers. A 

 spiral staircase will be carried up from the level of these upper platforms to the top 

 of the higher of the two front towers. This staircase will be six feet (6 feet) in diam- 

 eter, and will bo partitioned off in one corner of the tower. It will have proper 

 platforms and doors of communication to the different stories of the tower, of which 

 there will be four (4) above the roof of the main building. This staircase will open 

 on the roof of the tower, which will be nearly flat, and is to bo used as a place of 

 observation. 



A similar staircase will extend from the same level upwards to the floor of the 

 upper story of the lower central front tower. 



Both of the above stairs will have treads and risers of yellow pine, with handsome 

 coves and nosings. They will be ceiled in with A-inch white pine plank, will have 



