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Excerpt from The New City Hall, Philadelphia: Directory of Offices Occupied, or Allotted and in Process of Completion, With Diagrams and Other Miscellaneous Information Appertaining to the Building, October 7, 1890 The buildings from the exterior on each of the four fronts, exclusive of the centre and corner pavilions, present a base ment story or ground floor, with three principal stories, the uppermost one being a mansard story. These stories, above the basement, are in portions divided by mezzanine or half stories, which are specially to be noticed from the court-yard. The centre and corner pavilions rise above the adjacent wings and curtains, with attic stories; the corner pavilions being occupied by octagonal staircases. Including the sub-basement and the mezzanine stories, there are seven floors in the building, the rooms in each floor being on the same level. To each of these floors an even one hundred numbers have been assigned, commencing at the north entrance and following round the buildings to the east, south, and west fronts, and returning to the north entrance; twenty-five numbers being assigned for each quarter of the building. The rooms facing the streets will have the even numbers, and those overlooking the court yard the Odd numbers. I' he numbers in each one hundred will be assigned to the rooms Of corresponding numbers im mediately above and below upon the other floors. Thus, for example, rooms numbered 40, 140, 240, 340, 440, 540 and 640 will be immediately one over the other.er directory oi: offices te alphabetically arranged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The New City Hall, Philadelphia: Directory of Offices Occupied; Or Allotted and in Process of Completion, With Diagrams of Various Floors, and Other Miscellaneous Information Appertaining to the Building; October 7, 1890 N act #0 provide for the erection ofall the Public Buildi required to accommodate the Courts, and for all Manic purposes, in the Oily of Philadelphia, and to require appropriation by said City, of Penn Squares, at Broad Market Streets, to the Academy of Fine Arts, the Acad of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute, and the delphia Library, in the event of the said Squares no selected by a vote of the pmplc, as the site for the Buildings for said city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.