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In the meantime, Messrs. Trowbridge and Livingston, archi- 

 tects, were invited to prepare preliminary plans for the new 

 Western Entrance Hall of the Museum, facing Seventy-ninth 

 Street. These plans have been very carefully studied by the 

 Buildings and Plans Committee, with reference to making this 

 entrance a monumental gateway to the anthropological half of 

 the Museum and of placing therein, on the first and second 

 floors, the Due de Loubat collection and other reproduced 

 and original archaeological remains from Mexico and Central 

 America, which will represent the high-water mark of native 

 American culture and lend themselves to an imposing archi- 

 tectural treatment. This Hall is being designed in keeping 

 with its contents, and an expert archaeologist has been 

 especially despatched by the Museum to the ruins of Mexico 

 and Yucatan to study and prepare detailed plans for structural 

 and mural designs. Director Bumpus and Dr. Spinden also 

 visited Mexico in February for this purpose. At the May 

 Meeting of the Board, the general plans for this great western 

 entrance were approved and referred back to the Committee 

 for the further study of detailed design. 



The Committee has also begun the consideration of plans 

 for the construction of an East Wing (South Section of the 

 East Facade) on Eighth Avenue or Central Park West, and of 

 a Court Building in the southeast area. 



Responding to a request from the Department of Parks 

 for an estimate of the probable sum which the Museum will 

 require for the purpose of building during the next five years, 

 preliminary application has been made to the City for 

 $2,750,000, or $550,000 per annum for the years 1911-1915, 

 inclusive. This is the amount estimated to be necessary to 

 construct and equip the three new sections and a court building, 

 together with enlargement of the power plant, now under 

 consideration by the Trustees, namely: - 



WEST ENTRANCE HALL 

 WEST TRANSEPT 

 SOUTHEAST WING 

 COURT BUILDING 



