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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
NEW REFECTORY FOR LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO 
DESIGN FOR NEW REFECTORY, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. 
Work has been commenced on the 
construction of a new refectory build- 
ing at Lincoln Park, Chicago, to replace 
an old structure which has been locate4 
in the park for many years. The new 
building has a length of over 222 feet, 
and is to be constructed of oriental 
brick and marble with a green tile roof. 
The main building will have on the sec- 
ond floor a dining hall 88x50 ft. and on 
the lower floor a large entrance hall 
and lunch room, together with lavator- 
ies and rest rooms. The two wings span 
arcades through which entrance can be 
made to the boat landing. The ground 
floor of one wing contains a carbonating 
room and boiler rooms, while in the 
other is located a boat ticket office and 
other service rooms. These wings are 
left open above and form open air din- 
ing terraces containing 3,500 sq. ft. of 
floor space. The dining room is to be 
finished in pressed brick and marble 
and is to be lighted in part by a pris- 
matic sky light 32x16 ft. A large hill 
is being formed in the rear of the build- 
ing and will be planted out in such a 
way as to screen the building from the 
land side while large vistas are opened 
up to view across the lake and meadows 
in front. The building will cost, com- 
plete, about $70,000. 
ENTRANCES TO BROOKLYN PARK 
MONUMENTAL 
Some of the many handsome monumental structures in the 
parks of Brooklyn, N. Y., have previously been illustrated in 
these pages, and we show herewith and on the cover three 
entrance structures of great beauty erected to Brooklyn’s 
great Prospect Park. 
The entrance at 15th street, shown on the cover, includes 
two beautifully carved columns of Barre granite 34-5 high,, 
surmounted by great bronze urns. The design was the last 
made by Stanford White. When he was killed he left it al- 
most completed, and his firm, McKim, Mead & White, carried 
out his scheme. It consists of two handsomely carved col- 
umns of a very decorative character, modelled after an ancient 
Greek design that has not been duplicated in the United 
States heretofore. Its cost was $20,000. While traveling in 
Greece the architect discovered near Adelphi several hand- 
somely carved columns of a design he had never seen before. 
The columns were surmounted by the figure of three danc- 
ing girls, and known as the “Columns of the Dancers.’’ He 
was impressed with the originality of the work and arranged 
to have models made on the spot, and the Prospect Park col- 
umns were studied from these. The only difference between 
his designs and the original is that the dancing group at the 
top of each column is omitted and a bronze urn substituted. 
Benisch Bros., of Brooklyn, were the contractors for the work 
and the big urns were cast by W. J. Mills, of Brooklyn. 
The handsome granite stairway with its bronze electroliers 
is also at the 15th street entrance. It was designed by archi- 
tects Helmle & Huberty, of Brooklyn, and executed in Hur- 
ricane Isle granite by Cooper & Evans, of New York. The 
work cost $19,000. 
The elaborate pergola shown here faces the Ocean avenue 
entrance to the same park in the form of a quarter circle, 
one hundred and sixty feet from end to end. It is in two 
sections, comprising thirty-two columns of South Dover mar- 
ble, each of which is fourteen feet high. Over the col- 
umns are rafters, and vines will be trained over them. Pylons 
three feet square form the ends of the sections. The inter- 
mediate columns are round and two feet in diameter. The 
cost of this entrance was $27,600. 
Marble Pergola, Ocean Av. Entrance. Granite Stairs, 15th Ave. Entrance. 
HANDSOME MONUMENTAL ENTRANCE STRUCTURES AT PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
