House and Garden 
German custom of counting them, or five, as 
Americans would say. The middle tower, 
however, is quite lofty and measures 368 feet 
in height. The cost of the building was 
$2,625,000. Our illustration shows the model 
of the hall, and in a frame near it, a picture of 
the building with its details and surroundings. 
I have already mentioned that the Ger¬ 
man towns manage their theatres. In recent 
years it has become necessary to construct 
to societies who are always willing to make 
use of such a place upon special occasions. 
A building serving these two purposes is 
illustrated in the new city theatre and ban¬ 
quet-hall now being built at Nuremburg. 
Its construction was begun in 1901 and the 
expenditure for the theatre alone is estimated 
at $84,000. 
Among the churches occupying a place in 
the Exhibition, none embodies a more in- 
A CORRIDOR IN THE EXPOSITION PALACE 
The Hildesheim Exhibit on the left 
several of these in the larger cities. The 
newest idea in their establishment is to add 
to the theatre a banquet-hall. Economy is 
gained by joining these in one structure and 
thus the municipal banquets, often given in 
German towns, can be held in one of the city’s 
own buildings,and there as well receptions can 
be given to visiting societies and congresses. 
The city reaps an income from the building, 
too, by renting it for private functions and 
teresting and valuable summary of German 
ecclesiastical architecture than the Cathedral 
of St. Peter in Strasburg and here repro¬ 
duced in plaster. Ravaged by fire, and its 
construction prolonged through the twelfth 
and succeeding centuries as far as the fif¬ 
teenth, this single building exhibits the 
Romanesque style of Northern Europe and 
several variations of the Gothic executed by 
a number of German architects, now assert- 
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