General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . Staffs . . 4>4•4•I18 920 -4 28 3333343485156565765 6970 5] ENTRANCE HALL ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial,erected by the people of the State of New-York in memory of the man whose nameit bears, forms the main entrance to theMuseum on Central Park West. Its grace-ful architecture follows a stately Roman-esque design. Passing through the central archwaythe visitor steps into the great MemorialHall. Above the marble mosaic floor, risewalls of cream colored marble
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . Staffs . . 4>4•4•I18 920 -4 28 3333343485156565765 6970 5] ENTRANCE HALL ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial,erected by the people of the State of New-York in memory of the man whose nameit bears, forms the main entrance to theMuseum on Central Park West. Its grace-ful architecture follows a stately Roman-esque design. Passing through the central archwaythe visitor steps into the great MemorialHall. Above the marble mosaic floor, risewalls of cream colored marble and lime-stone extending to an elaborate Corin- thian cornice overarched by an octagonalcoffered barrel-vault 100 feet above thefloor. The central part of each wall isrecessed and divided into three partsby two Roman Corinthian columns 48feel high supporting the of these recesses are adorned withgreat mural paintings symbolic of thevaried career of Theodore the walls, quotations from Rooseveltswritings are displayed in raised The facade of the Memorialis adorned by four Ionic col-umns fifty-four feet high rep-resenting Boone, Audubon,Clark, and Lewis, pioneers inthe early exploration of ourcountrv.
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