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this recess connects the ante-room with the private staircase just 

 described. All the apartments on this story are abundantly 

 lighted, in the three exterior walls, by windows of liberal di- 

 mensions and pleasing proportion. 



The third or uj)per story is mainly devoted to a principal 

 Exhibition Hall, extending over nearly its whole area, inasmuch 

 as it not only spans the whole width of the estate, but occupies, 

 with its lobby entrances and stair landings, the whole length of 

 the entire property — with the exception of an ante-room, private 

 staircase, and passageway of communication in the rear, the 

 same as those already described on the story underneath. On 

 account of the greater height on this floor, this arrangement 

 of stairway, passage and ante-room is also duplicated in a 

 secondary or half story, introduced above the one just named ; 

 the two occupying together, only the height of the larger Hall. 

 The lobby entrances and stair landings at the front or west end 

 of the building, as well as that portion of the area of the large 

 hall lying between these lobbies, are constructed so as to be ten 

 feet in height, and over them all is a Gallery of the whole 

 width of the Hall, and entered from one of the landings by a 

 flight of Gallery stairs, placed in the south-west corner of the 

 building. 



Each of the two halls, in the second and third stories, con- 

 tains a stage at its eastern end, accessible from the ante-rooms, 

 and from the rear or private staircase at that end of the Hall. 



The amount of interior area and accommodation afi'orded by 

 the several floors of the building, will perhaps be better under- 

 stood by the following schedule of the number, designation, and 

 dimensions of the halls, apartments, &c., to wit: 



BASEMENT STORY. 



Store No. 1 is ISA in width by 50.0 in length. 

 " " 2 " 18.4 " " " 50.9 " " 

 " " 3 " 18.4 " " " 51.2 " " 



Cellar " 1 " 25.0 " " " 41.3 " " 



" a 2 " '^*5 " " " 44 " " 



Engine and Boiler Room 14.6 by 36.8. 



