. History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantage for business, manufacturing, etc. Published under the auspices of the Springfield Board of Trade. andcommittee rooms. The largest portionof this floor is devoted to the storage ofstationery, printing paper, and all arti-cles connected with or used in any otherpart of the building. One of these roomsis for the storage of Geological speci-mens, and another for geological or more is for the Adjutant Gene-rals office and museum. This story, inaddition to the windows on all sides, islighted by a glass ceiling in
. History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantage for business, manufacturing, etc. Published under the auspices of the Springfield Board of Trade. andcommittee rooms. The largest portionof this floor is devoted to the storage ofstationery, printing paper, and all arti-cles connected with or used in any otherpart of the building. One of these roomsis for the storage of Geological speci-mens, and another for geological or more is for the Adjutant Gene-rals office and museum. This story, inaddition to the windows on all sides, islighted by a glass ceiling in the centre,which forms the floor of the Rotundaabove. Above this is the peencipal story,which is twenty-two feet and a halffrom floor to ceiling. On this floor isthe Main Corridor, runniug the entirelength of the building from north tosouth, and the Grand Corridor crossingit at right angles under the dome, andextending across the building from eastto west. The Main Corridor is 359 feetlong, twenty-four feet wide and twenty-two and a half feet high. The sides of the Main Corridor will befinished with marble pilasters projectingfrom the walls, thus forming panels. The. View of the Nen- State House,entire walls on both sides, consisting ofpilasters with their caps and bases, pan-els and their borders, and door finish, areall to be of variagated marble, and theceiling to be frescoed. The Grand Cor-ridor, extending from the east portico tothe Grand Stairway in the westernwing, is so called in consideration ofits great width—thirty-two feet—andbecause the pilasters are more massiveand the finish more elaborate than in theMain Corridor. The rooms on the floor described areto be used as follows : Governors recep-tion and private rooms; office of theSecretary of State; of the Treasurer ofState, and of the ^.uditor of Public Ac-counts ; Superintendent of Public In-struction ; Superintendent of Public In-structions library ; law library ; Statedocument library; Attorney Generalsoffic
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