Identifier: architectenginee2210sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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total of 155 rooms, includ-ing all inclosures requiring both door and window. There are 38classrooms, the average size of which is 24 by 32 feet. The library is thelargest room in the building, and is a gem in itself. It is two -tone- high,60 by 97 feet, and void of columns to obstruct valuable space and light.The ceiling is done in ornamental plaster, with panels and Corinthianpilasters in staff and stucco. There are accommodations for 40.000 vol-ume--, the equipment including 22 double steel -tacks, each one 14 feetlong, and 44 reading table-Special attention has been given to the lighting features of the building,the light invariably falling over the left shoulder. The building is fullyequipped with gas and electric lighting facilities for use on dark daysnight. Every room has a private telephone connection The buildiiheated by the plenium fan and exhaust system, the steam being .in a boiler plant built some distance away. The heat is brought into the 40 The Architect and Engineer
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Progress Work, Califo State Xormal School main building through a concrete tunnel, and is then distributed into theseveral rooms in galvanized iron ducts. Erected at a total cost to the State of $272,000. or a little less than 16J4cents per cubic foot, the building is unquestionably the best bargain Cali-fornia has ever -been fortunate enough to make. The F. O. EngstrumCompany has built many public structures in the past four years, but nonequite as good as the Normal School for the money. Keen competition, ofcourse, had a good deal to do with the low figure; likewise a desire onthe part of the successful contractors to make it their banner job. Con-struction work covered a period of little more than a year, and was con-ducted under the personal supervision of Mr. F. O. Engstrum, presidentof the company. ^ Radical Changes in Wall Coverings THERE has been an immense change within the last few years in thestyle of wall paper and in the quality of the color value, says a writerin Suburba

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