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BEVERLY’S NEW LIBRARY 
Plans Now Perfected for New Building of Brick and White Marble 
library building 
will have the appearance of a one 
story building in the front elevation. 
Beverly’s new 
It will be colonial in style, con- 
structed of brick and white marble; 
the marble shows in the basement 
above the grass line. The wide cor- 
nice and balustrade that surround 
the roof with their support of pil- 
asters at intervals, with the window 
and door frames, will also be of 
marble. 
The heavy cornice and balustrade 
will be continued around the main 
building only, a lighter cornice sur- 
mounting the stack room, which 
will be built of brick, broken by the 
continuous row of windows from 
top to bottom required by stack con- 
struction. 
The building will be approached 
by two short flights of steps with a 
terrace between them. The main en- 
trance to the building will be under 
a porch advanced about eight feet 
in the centre of the front. In de- 
signing this entrance, the architect, 
Cass Gilbert, has departed from the 
usual colonial type of colonnade and 
has protected his door by a curved 
recess, roofed by a half dome, suit- 
ably ornamented with white terra 
cotta blocks. 
This is an original conception in 
a colonial building, but one for 
which there is ample authority if we 
reflect that ‘‘Colonial’’ architecture 
is simply the American version of 
the English ‘‘Georgian,’’ of which 
the principal exponent was Sir 
Christopher Wren; and this especial 
style was a return to Classic models, 
after the long reign of Gothic archi- 
tecture in Europe. 
On entering the building, one will 
find himself in a vestibule, where 
the marble walls offer opportunity 
for memorial tablets. A glass wall 
divides the vestibule from the cen- 
tral halls, 30 by 17 feet, at the back 
of which is the delivery desk. This 
hall will be furnished with proper 
cases for the display of new books, 
ete. At the left of the hall is the 
general reading room, and at the 
right an equally large one for chil- 
dren; each will seat comfortably 
forty persons at the tables. 
The building will be as nearly 
fire proof as a building can be. It 
will be constructed of iron, coated 
with cement. The floors will be of 
terazzo and cement, and in one or 
two rooms only of hard wood over 
the cement. It will also be water 
proofed, with the purpose of pro- 
tecting the books from the dampness 
that often injures them in less ecare- 
fully constructed buildings. 
Mr. Gilbert was much pleased by 
the site furnished by the city, but 
said at once, ‘in order to build suit- 
ably, the Burnham property ought 
to be added to it.’’ The Com-. 
missioners thereupon appealed for 
help and obtained the necessary 
amount from these gererous per-— 
sons: Miss E. P. Sohier, $5,000; 
William Endicott, $1,000; Mrs. R. 
D. Evans, Messrs. D. L. Pickman 
and W. D. Sohier $500 each; Mrs. | 
F. H. Peabody, $100. ) 
A water color drawing of the 
new library can be seen in the old 
library in the City Hall. 
A plumber’s helper—Ten below zero, 
