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Sep. 28-1909 Tuesday. Chicago
Opened fairly the morning in the Chicago
Acad. of Science in Lincoln Park.
There is a basement on which the entrance
stairs land. This first floor has a small central
exhibition room, and one lift with lecture or
cinema rooms on each side. On the back of the
central room are the stairs are elevator to the
main exhibition floor. The plan of this room
occupies the entire building with 2 second floor
gallery. Central windowed at an oblique pattern
around the sides.
[illegible]
black space about 8". Window space about 5'.
Between fire floor about 40" continues to 1' of
ceiling. Height of corridor about 6'. Cases about
flat lift. Piers between windows about 20 wide
in midway (Could be made for all or always
midway spaces).
Central sky lift flat below, levelled above. Some