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The first, or street story, is sub-divided into tlie same number 

 of compartments as those above described in the basement, and 

 consists entirely of shops or stores, two of which front on Tre- 

 mont Street, with hght on the front, and on one side of each 

 store, while the remaining four all entered from Bromfield 

 Street, and are lighted both in front and rear of each. The 

 staircase, commenced in the basement, is continued up through 

 this story, and is accessible from the Montgomery Place side of 

 the building. The front or main staircase, 10 feet in width, is 

 carried up between the two stores on Tremont Street. 



The second story contains one of the Exhibition Halls, span- 

 ning the width of the estate, and lighted by three large windows 

 in each of its two sides. Besides this hall, there are four 

 apartments to the west of it, receiving light from the three sides 

 of the building, and communicating Avith each other, and with 

 a square lobby, containing three noble flights of stairs. One of 

 these flights leads up from the principal front entrance on Tre- 

 mont Street, and the two others are for connection with the 

 third story, which contains the principal hall of the building. 

 Of the four apartments on the front of this storj^, the two which 

 extend across the whole of the Tremont Street front, are for the 

 puq^oses of a Library, and of Superintendent's and Treasurer's 

 ofl[ice, and are connected by wide folding doors, so as to be 

 thrown into one, when necessary. Connected with these two 

 front rooms, are the two smaller rooms, located between the 

 front rooms and the Hall, and occujDying all the remaining space 

 of this floor not devoted to lobby and staircases. From one of 

 these smaller rooms, opens a water-closet and lavatory, intended 

 for the use of the officers of the Society. To the east of the 

 Hall on this second story, and placed between it and the ex- 

 treme east wall of the estate, on the Bromfield Street side, there 

 is an apartment of suitable size to be used as an ante-room, and 

 corresponding in area with the staircase hall on the other side, 

 through which runs up the continuation of the staircases of the 

 two stories beneath, and accessible from Montgomery Place. 

 Between these two is formed a recess for the stage or platform 

 at the upper end of the hall, and a passageway in the rear of 



