JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. I. January, 1900. No. 1. 
THE MUSEUM BUILDING. 
With Prate I. 
The Museum Building, which stands on a slight elevation, 
seven hundred feet east of the Bedford Park railway station o 
the Harlem Division, New York Central and Hudson River Rail- 
road, is the largest, most elegant, most satisfactorily illuminated, 
and for its purposes the best adapted of any similar edifice in the 
world. The technical requirements are met in a thorough unhin- 
dered method. The architectural treatment is frank and digni- 
ed. The sty!e is Italian Renaissance, with details of schol- 
arly character ; its imposing front has a length of 308 feet, and 
its height to the top of the dome is 110 feet. The construction 
is fireproof throughout ; the steel framework has been most care- 
fully designed to withstand all strains that will properly be put 
upon it; the central portico is of Indiana limestone with columns 
: ae ; 
and a “‘terrazo-granito "’ surface, and the walls and columns are 
finished in hard patent plaster, all ironwork alc double rede 
fireproofing on two layers of steel lath. The basement floo 
of concrete and asphalt, to secure water-proof we air- ery sur- 
faces. The roof is of hollow brick, asphalt and tiles. The win- 
dows are ample, being, on the main museum floors, of greater 
width and about the same area as the intervening piers, this hav- 
ing been made a special feature of the design from its inception. 
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