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Box OSxx-1

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Dance studio (basement): Plan, details

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Routinely referred to as the Recreation Room in the plans. Details include aluminum railings, brackets, and composition for steps. Includes some original drawings. A black and white diagram designating wall colors is found below in the subseries, "Lettering, signage and color schemes."

Fifth floor (various rooms): Plans, elevations, details

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The fifth floor was devoted to exhibition space, a general dining room, and a private dining area for faculty. The floor plan shows the exhibition area wrapping around the double stairway that led to the library below. Includes some original drawings.

Library stairs, desk, tables (fourth floor): Plans, details

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Scope and Contents The library occupied the entire fourth floor. Behind the librarian’s desk in the center of the floor is a triangular wall of shelves formed by staircases on either side leading to the exhibition gallery above. Some time after the building was completed, complaints that noise from the fifth floor distracted those studying in the library, and the stairwells were closed off. The library was relocated to the List building during the 1950s expansion, and the fourth floor repurposed for classrooms...

Mezzanine: Plans, sections, details

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Includes plans and revisions for "talk-over niches" outside the auditorium, as well as the mezzanine seating area and projection booth. Includes some original drawings.

Lighting (Cox, Nostrand & Gunnison)

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Certain drawings here probably originated in Urban's office, not the subcontractor's.