Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . .ill 11. PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY IN ARCHITECTURE 189 tion as had not been seen since W. M. Hunt decorated the Senate Chamberin Albany, or La Farge did the figures in Trinity Church, Boston, and Church, New York. Blashfields dome, typifying all the nations ofthe earth ; Vedders Minerva,
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . .ill 11. PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY IN ARCHITECTURE 189 tion as had not been seen since W. M. Hunt decorated the Senate Chamberin Albany, or La Farge did the figures in Trinity Church, Boston, and Church, New York. Blashfields dome, typifying all the nations ofthe earth ; Vedders Minerva, in mosaic; H. 0. Walkers Large lunettes, illus-trating English poems, and Simmons small lunettes, filled with exquisitelittle figures, are but a few of the many interesting works in color. Two ofthe main entrance doors of bronze were modeled by Olin L. Warner, but hedid not live to complete them. The marble stairway is by Martini, and thestatues which adorn the main reading-room are by Adams, Bartlett, Partridge,Ward, and others. The plan of the building is that of a central octagon containing the generalreading-room, connected by wings containing the book-stacks with a surround-ing hollow square containing rooms for special collections. There are amplereading-rooms for representatives, senators, and t
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