The at Cincinnati (pi. 1), in the Romanesque :style, has two ranges of rectangular twin windows, and the plain walls of the uppermost storey are unrelieved save by blind arches. The central hall, 5r by 58 feet, is good, and is the most striking feature of the interior. The walls are of local blue limestone, with cornices, arches, etc., of sien itic Missouri granite; the roof is of red Akron pantiles. The present structure, begun in '882, is but the west wing of the proposed building. The eastern wing will have a fine polygonal apse with nine pairs of win dows and a tall tower on the line of the entrance-front. This projected tower terminates in a bold machicolated cornice surmounted by a bal dachin-like central turret with a high pyramidal roof.
The School and Museum of Fine Arts at St. Louis is a modest and by no means large, but simple and effective, building, with a range of five large windows, the three central ones set in large round arches, while those of the wings have carved panels above them.
The Chicago An Institute is a handsome and massive rather than deli cate structure. Four great recesses at the sides and three at the ends, separated from one another by broad flat pilasters, each enclose two tiers of windows. Below these recesses the windows of the lower floor are square-headed, but a prominent though rather low round-arched entrance stands beneath a window of the east front. A round turret rises from each angle; the north side has four dormers, and the east front a great gable. Level with the dormers on the gable-front is a row of seven square-headed windows contrasting boldly with the great arches below them. Higher up in the gable is a group of four similar lights, and above them the gable is covered with carved ornament.
The .1Iuseum of Fine Arts at Boston, commenced in 1871, is one of the first buildings in the United States upon which terra-cotta—made in England from the architect's drawings—has been extensively used. This structure may be called Italian Gothic; upon the ground-floor it has arched openings in groups separated by buttresses, while, above these, large panels, some of them filled with sculpture, mask the picture-gallery. The en trance is through a pair of arches. The present building (r888) is but a fourth of the design.
Memorial Hall, in Fairmount Park, now used as a museum of indus trial art, is in conception one of Philadelphia's finest structures. Erected at the same time with the hurriedly-constructed buildings of the Exhibi tion of 1876, it was intended to be a monumental memorial of that great world's fair, but its construction suffered from the hurry of the time, and it has never been completely finished. None of these things were the fault of the designer, who planned a grand symmetrical structure with a cen tral and wing pal;ilions connected by colonnades, the whole crowned by a cupola. Were it but mounted upon an elevated terrace, its grandeur
would be acknowledged, and even as it is few European museums have an. interior hall equal to that of this structure.
The Academy of Fine Ails, Philadelphia, fulfils its purpose admirably.. The halls, of reasonable size, are well lighted, and the façade has consid erable originality. Polychromy has full play here. The base is of red sandstone; the upper part, chiefly buff sandstone adorned with polished red granite colonnettes, and with tiles in the spandrels of the central arches, etc. The cornice is peculiar, and below it extensive flat spaces of rough stone contrast effectively with the series of rilievos which surmount the windows of the flanks, and with the carving and color of the centre bay of the facade.
The National Academy of Design, New York City, is to some extent an imitation of the ducal palace at Venice. There are but two tiers of windows, surmounted by a high blank wall relieved by the introduction of small circular openings and adorned with diamond patterns in a stone darker than the rest of the facade. The principal floor has pointed arches in stone of two colors, turned over square-headed win dows. 'The structure is not improved by its cornice, but the entrance is effective.
The Metropolitan All/scum of Ant, New York City, has walls of red brick with plain pointed arches of alternating rough and worked gray granite voussoirs, but is a comparatively plain structure. Of the intended buildings the part erected is but a section, measuring 2rS by 95 feet. A wing 23o by 128 feet, enclosing a small court, is now in course of erec tion, and another is projected upon the opposite side of the existing portion.
The Museum of Natural History, New York City, will, when completed, be the largest building of the kind extant, since it will form a square of about 64o feet, enclosing four courts, each about 23o feet across, and with pavilions and projecting wings which will bring parts of the front quite near to the edges of the area, about moo by Soo feet, set aside for its reception. At present this vast edifice is only projected, the part actually erected being one arm of the central cross. This, though only about one sixteenth of the intended building, measures zoo feet by 6o, and has four storeys for the exhibition of specimens, besides workshops, etc., in a lofty upper floor. The structure is of red brick with dressings of gray granite, the arches pointed, and it has a plain but substantial appearance.