. Annual report of the Boston Transit Commission, for the year ending .. . r. The ceilingsand upper half of the walls are of white cement plaster. Thelower half is of white polished terrazzo, with a band of whiteand colored ceramic tile and polished terrazzo between the whiteterrazzo and the plaster, and another band at the bottom be-tween the terrazzo and the granolithic base. The colored bandis also carried around the advertising panels. The color ofthe tile and terrazzo border in the Massachusetts station is red;that in the Copley station is blue. The surfaces of the plat-forms and passagew
. Annual report of the Boston Transit Commission, for the year ending .. . r. The ceilingsand upper half of the walls are of white cement plaster. Thelower half is of white polished terrazzo, with a band of whiteand colored ceramic tile and polished terrazzo between the whiteterrazzo and the plaster, and another band at the bottom be-tween the terrazzo and the granolithic base. The colored bandis also carried around the advertising panels. The color ofthe tile and terrazzo border in the Massachusetts station is red;that in the Copley station is blue. The surfaces of the plat-forms and passageways are of granolithic. The edges of theplatforms next to the tracks are bordered with a strip of whitecement 6 inches wide, 2 feet 3 inches distant from the rail,and 3 inches above the grade of the top of the rail. The road-bed in both stations was constructed by the Boston ElevatedRailway Company. The rails are fastened with screw spikesto creosoted ties on a crushed stone bed in the ordinary manner,but for sanitary reasons the crushed stone at the stations is PLATE 6. PLATE 7
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