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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



two front rooms provided in the basement could be fitted up for a 

 kitchen and made available for banquet purposes if at any time 

 societies using the building should have need of such accommoda- 

 tions. 



The upper or main floor is approached from the front by a 

 marble staircase, eleven feet wide, opening into an auditorium 

 the same dimensions as the ex- 

 hibition room below, sixty- 

 four by eighty feet, and suffi- 

 ciently large to seat comfort- 

 ably, with wide aisles, in ac- 

 cordance with the require- 

 ments of Minneapolis build- 

 ing ordinance, eight hundred 

 people. This room is abun- 

 dantly lighted. The side walls 

 are sixteen feet high, but in 

 the center the ceiling is twen- 

 ty-two feet high, the differ- 

 ence in elevation being on ac- 

 count of the curve of the iron 

 trusses which support the 

 roof, there being no posts in 

 this room to obscure the 

 vision. 



The platform is ten feet 

 deep and constructed in the 

 usual manner in the rear of 

 the building. On this floor, at 

 the front, are also the secre- 

 tary's office, library, cloak- 

 room, closets, etc., an entirely 

 convenient arrangement for the use of the officers of the society. 

 The floors are concrete, and in fact the building itself is thor- 

 oughly fireproof throughout and planned to be a handsome build- 

 ing and finished in the highest style of art needed for such a 

 structure. The walls are mainly of brick, the corners being cut 

 stone, etc., the roof is of slate. As noted by the illustrations it 

 is a building of the appearance of which the Horticultural Society 

 may well be proud. 



The building committee has already at this date, December 

 19th, held meetings with the Board of Regents and Civic & Com- 



FIE5T FLOOR PLAH 



