Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . vaults arched with brick, for machinery, boilers, heatingapp ratus, coal, &c. Ihe smoke stack connected with this partof the building is 86 high. Cost.—The cost of the building completed is $700,000. The 7, 1882, appropriated $250,000; Mar. 3,1883, $153,000and $40,000, for heating and ventilating, and July 7, 1884,$266,559. In the construction of the building there were used 15,000,000bricks, pressed and common, 200 tons of iron in beams, ties
Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . vaults arched with brick, for machinery, boilers, heatingapp ratus, coal, &c. Ihe smoke stack connected with this partof the building is 86 high. Cost.—The cost of the building completed is $700,000. The 7, 1882, appropriated $250,000; Mar. 3,1883, $153,000and $40,000, for heating and ventilating, and July 7, 1884,$266,559. In the construction of the building there were used 15,000,000bricks, pressed and common, 200 tons of iron in beams, ties andclamps, besides the iron of the roof- and 40,000 lbs. of metallicpaint, brown and Venetian red in coloring the mortar. The 146 U S. PENSION BUILDING. terra cotta work over the doers and enriched bases of columnswere executed by the A. Hall Company, of Perth Amboy, N. is the first building of this plan ever attempted in theU. S. As the rooms occupy ihc entire width of the building theyhave light and air from both sides The dark, and often, noisomecorridors of other buildings cf ihe city are completely excludedfrom the SECTION OF FRIEZE, BY THE BOSTON TERRA COTTA COMPANY. History.—The A. Aug. 7. 1882, (Sundry Civil) appropriated$250,000, for the erection of a brick and metal fire-proof buildingto be occupied by the Pension Bureau, and fixed as its loca-tion, the open space on B St. at the intersection of Ohio andLouisiana Aves. This site was found unsafe on account of hav-ing once been the basin of the old Washington Canal, now filled,The present site was then selected. Ground was broken Nov. 2,1882. A portion of the first floor rooms were ready for occupancyin Sept., 1884. The Building will be completed by 1886. PATENT OFFICE BUILDING. 147 THE U. S. PATENT OFFICE. The Patent Office occupies two squares, extending from 7th to9tli and F to G Sts., n. w. It may be reached by the MetropolitanHorse R. R The yth-st. branch of the W. & G. R. R. pass iton the E. (Ope
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