Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Commerce Building [PAGE 9]

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The new Commerce Building is centrally located on the University Campus, standing a little south of University Hall, and facing on Burrill Avenue. In its architecture/ the building harmonizes with the other structures on the south Campus, though differing from them considerably in style. The first story and the cornice are constructed of white stone, while the rest is in brick of the type used in the adjacent buildings. The east facade is the only part of the present structure which will show when the building is completed. This facade is somewhat more elaborate in its detail than in the case of any other building on the Campus. Its most striking feature is the broad entrance, flanked by large stone pylons supporting massive bronze lanterns. The spacious but simply designed entrance hail, with marble wainscot and low vaulted ceiling, leads directly to a large lecture room seated in amphitheater fashion, which furnishes comfortable accommodation for several large lecture courses. The room is well lighted and ventilated and will be equipped with the most improved type of lantern for stereopticon illustration. Corridors leading north and south from the entrance hall give access to two other large lecture rooms, to the offices of the Director and Assist* ant Director of the Courses in Business Administration, and to the stairways leading to the upper floors.

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