Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 25
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Tuesday June 25 - 1907 Brooke Botanical Garden. Museum building. A grey brick building with pillars of sandstone. Approach from each side around a central fountain to central doorway. In this like the museum at Prof. Effective. Three stories, 2 above ground and one very and one below. Basement for botany, First floor Economic Botany, second floor Systematic Botany. Windows high above floor double with transverse window a transoms. Piers about one-half the width of the window. Floor plan as follows:- Supporting pillars opposite piers, above case built under them, hollow inside. Floor both marble and tile. Inside color white. Cases oak,