. Waterman's illustrated album of the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 . with only sixteen supporting steel posts. The cantilevers are of pinconnection to facilitate erection. The inner and higher ends of the cantileversare 46 feet apart and the space between them is spanned by riveted steel trusseswith an elliptical chord. These trusses are designed so as to form a clearstory 12 feet high, with verticalsash extending the entire length of central space—030 feet; this space terminatingit eai !i end with a great glass gable setting back 60 feet from front ends of build-ing. The
. Waterman's illustrated album of the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 . with only sixteen supporting steel posts. The cantilevers are of pinconnection to facilitate erection. The inner and higher ends of the cantileversare 46 feet apart and the space between them is spanned by riveted steel trusseswith an elliptical chord. These trusses are designed so as to form a clearstory 12 feet high, with verticalsash extending the entire length of central space—030 feet; this space terminatingit eai !i end with a great glass gable setting back 60 feet from front ends of build-ing. The wide spacings of the cantilever necessitated an extensive system oflongitudinal perlines of the riveted lattice type A great portion of the roof iscovered with gla>s. It may be of interest to state that the cantilever system asapplied to roofs has not been used heretofore on so large a scale. The exterior of this building, like that of all the others, will be made ofstaff, similartothat usedin facingthe recent Paris Exposition buildings. Thecost of the Mines Building is S2bo, -\- THE ART PfVLflCE. Grecian-Ionic in style, the Fine Arts Building is a pure type of the mostrefined classic architecture. The building is oblong, and is 500x320 feet, inter-sected north, east, South and west by a great nave and transept 100 feet wide and70 feet high, at the intersection of which is a great dome 60 feet in diameter. Thebuilding is 12; feet to the top of the dome, which is surmounted by a of the type of famous figures of Winged Victory. The transept has a clearspaee through the center of 60 feet, being lighted entirely from above. On either side are galleries 20 feet wide and 24 feet above the floor. The col-lections of the sculpture are displayed on the main floor of the nave and transept,and on the walls both of the ground floor and of the galleries are ample areas fordisplaying the paintings and sculptured panels in relief. The corners made bythe crossing of t
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