Box 35, Folder 2: Library Design

Plan for a Library by I. A. Lapham

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147. 8

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150. 232.ft

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1624. sq.ft. [Cages?]

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23.526 21.735

12.735 18

Principal Story - 23 feet high in the clear

with pilasters - cornice - +c - Walls 16 inches - Pilasters 20 - windows 8 - arched above

Iron Colums - Ionic order 8 - 5 feet apart

Will hold 30,000 volumes in 3 tiers of Cases 7ft high each.

Colums surmounted by a Dome ^12 feet Diam with Sky lights - Conductors to catch } moisture

Roof Octagonal of best tin

Cases for books against the walls + radiating from Each Column.

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1.307 1.2075

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Joists 2 by 12 - 16 inchs apart. 2 Timbers 10 by 12 to support- Joists.

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138. 1/2

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27660

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7232

7232

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81,360 Brick FB. 8

B- 13

1st 23

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Librarians desk in centre

Data side of [Octougror?] [Octagon] [beig?] [being] 1The [sqrar?] [square] will be 2.415 +c

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Boiler

Hall

grand

Reading Trustees

Alley

Packing

Librarian's Room

Dune [dumb]

W.

Street

Basement Story -

Walls 20 inches thick 13 feet high - rusticated - no Pilasters on the corners - Door in front arched above - A Windows in each of the other 7 sides -

A room for Librarian-^with 2 closets another for packing - storing +c another for meeting of Trustees ^lecture +c +c - Hall for large maps- + special objests - busts +c -

8 pillars continued - of iron of brick 16 inches square to support the colums above. (Perhaps of Iron)

A front Hall + stairs - Stairs also leading to furnace below. stairs (narrow) to Librarians room.

A Dumb=Waiter from packing room. to top of library room

Smoke flue at one of the back angles

Walls 18 feet outside - 16ft 71/2 inches inside - average 17ft 3 3/4 in. Whole length of wall 138 ft 6 inches - 8 Openngs [Openings] about - 5ft wide by 8 ft high -

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8.11"

Furnace

6 1/2

Front

Foundation Basement of Stone 8 feet high 2 feet thick

Length of each side 18ft 11in - Window in each side 4ft wide 3ft high - Length of Wall in side 17.3' (mear 17-7'

Eight pillars of Brich 20 inches square to support columns above - 5 feet apart from centre to centre - to be set 2 feet in the ground.- or 10 feet high.

A furnace of the most approved kind in the centre of the building - or at the back part. -

Top course of Basement to be Cut stone 6 inches thick - 2 ft 2 inches wide - whole length of wall 140 ft 8 in

Stone 2250 cubic feet

96 [less +?] 1/2 [openngs?]

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2154 cubic feet

140 2/3 linear feet water table

Brich 5,000

windows to be protected by Iron rods.