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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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19 hall, and large and commodious rooms for museums of Natural History and the useful arts. Several large rooms for literary societies will also be provided in the Mansard story. The building is surmounted by companile towers for clock and bells. The new Mechanical Building and Drill Hall is to be built this summer and to be ready for use in September. It will be of brick, 128 feet in length by 80 feet in width, two stories in hight, with towers three stories in hight, as shown in above perspective view. It will contain a boiler and forge room, a machine shop, furnished with steam engine, lathes, and other machinery ; pattern and finishing shop, and shops for carpentery, cabinet work, wood working machinery, paint rooms, printing rooms, draughting rooms, and rooms for models, finishing, etc. In the second story will be a large drill hall, 120 feet by 60 feet, sufficient for the evolutions of a company of infantry, or a section of a battery of field artillery. On the ground floor of one of the towers will be an armorer's shop, a band room, officer's rooms and a military model room. The Veterinary Stables and operating rooms are to occupy the building heretofore used as shops. It is provided with a good yard and
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