United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . spring upin Fairmount Park, were struckfrom their foundations—disappear-ing even as they came, like anexhalation of the night,—Memo-rial Hall, with its higher purposeand destiny, was happily preservedfor after ages as an enduring mon-ument of the artistic taste and pa-triotism of the American people. 3In its general plan and out- wline Machinery Hall was similar to athe Main Exposition Building, and ronly second thereto in ground-p
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . spring upin Fairmount Park, were struckfrom their foundations—disappear-ing even as they came, like anexhalation of the night,—Memo-rial Hall, with its higher purposeand destiny, was happily preservedfor after ages as an enduring mon-ument of the artistic taste and pa-triotism of the American people. 3In its general plan and out- wline Machinery Hall was similar to athe Main Exposition Building, and ronly second thereto in ground-plan was a rectangu-lar parallelogram fourteen hun-dred and two feet in length, andthree hundred and sixty feet inwidth. On the south side the cen-tral transept of the main hall pro-jected into an Annex, two hun-dred and eight feet in depth by twohundred and ten feet in the north the front of the prin-cipal structure was on a right linewith the corresponding front ofthe Main Building, and the twoedifices were separated by an inter-vening space or promenade of onlylive hundred and forty-two feet;so that, glancing from the east end. mm
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