HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



will be submitted to the Department of Parks before detailed draw- 

 ings are prepared. 



The main features of this plan, so far as considered, are: 



First, in planning each Hall and each Section to consider carefully 

 the uses to which it is to be put, so that in both proportion and illumi- 

 nation it may so far as possible be adapted to its purpose. 



Second, to provide for mural decoration, both in painting and 

 sculpture, in order to add to the artistic interpretation of Nature by 

 means similar to those now being instituted in some of the older halls. 



Third, to continue the policy of very economic and simple interior 

 construction adopted by previous administrations, and to make the 

 exterior conform architecturally with the Romanesque style of the 

 south facade, the only exception to be the east grand entrance, which 

 is to give, it is proposed, an imposing architectural appearance com- 

 mensurate with the grand dimensions of the future Museum as a whole. 



Fourth, to proceed with the west side of the building around tow r ard 

 the east and southeast, completing the two south courts. 



The proposed order of building is as follows : 



NEW WEST PAVILION OR SEVENTY-NINTH STREET EN- 

 TRANCE, a popular evening and stormy weather entrance, 

 because most accessible to all transit routes; to be distinguished 

 as the entrance to the anthropological side of the Museum by the 

 location there of the great Mexican and Central American archaeo- 

 logical collections. 



NEW WEST TRANSEPT, connecting with the Central Rotunda, with 

 provision for the entire heating and lighting plant of the com- 

 pleted Museum of the future, beneath and to the south side. 

 Temporarily the engines will be left in their present position. It 

 is proposed to make this transept twelve feet wider than the 

 original South Transept. 



CENTRAL PAVILION OR ROTUNDA, to be treated externally 

 as part of the court, i. e. without the external architectural effect 



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