THE NEW BUILDING 
 
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 Department of Law 
 
 University of Pennsylvania 
 
 COPE & STEWARDSON 
 
 ARCHITECTS 
 
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 PERSPECTIVE VIEW 
 
The new building for the Law Department of the University 
 of Pennsylvania is now started and will be ready for occupancy 
 about January 1st, 1900. It will occupy the lot, 150 feet by 220 
 feet, at the South-west Corner of Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Streets, 
 extending from Chestnut Street to Sansom Street. The main entrance 
 will be on Thirty-fourth Street, and a minor entrance on Sansom 
 Street. 
 
 The construction will he fire-proof and very little wood will 
 be used in the finishing — even the floors will be mosaic or cement 
 covered with linoleum. 
 
 The walls of the exterior will be of a dark dull red brick and 
 Indiana limestone, and the roof of green slate. 
 
 In the basement at the south end, and flanking the Sansom 
 Street entrance, will be a number of club and quiz rooms, and a 
 large room for bicycles. 
 
IN THE HALLWAY 
 
On the ground floor will be the offices of the Dean, the Coat Room, Lecture Rooms, and a Practice 
 Court anti Prothonotary’s Office. The Lecture Rooms, seven in number, will vary in size from a seating 
 capacity of 50 to one of 200. These rooms surround the large central hallway, which is entered at the 
 south end by a stairway leading up from the basement entrance hall, and also directly by the main entrance 
 on Thirty-fourth Street. Opposite the main entrance is the stair hall, with the grand staircase of marble, 
 leading to the second or Library floor. Half-way up the stair, opening from the landing, w'ill be the 
 students’ toilet rooms. 
 
 The Library, or second floor, is devoted exclusively to the Stack and Reading Room, with small Professors’ 
 Rooms adjoining. The Stack Room occupies the centre or heart of the building immediately opposite the 
 staircase, and at the north and south ends are the two great Reading Rooms, seating 250 men each In front 
 of the Stack on the east is the Graduate or Advanced Reading Room, Hanked by the Professors’ Rooms in 
 two stories. The Library is arranged so that the books shall be in the middle of the building, while the 
 readers will occupy the surrounding rooms near the light. The books are thus accessible to the greatest 
 number of readers, and can be distributed and collected with the least delay and contusion. Every student will 
 have his own desk, with its electric reading light and bell-call and a closet for books or personal effects. 
 The desks are so arranged that light from the windows will tall behind and at the side of the student, so 
 that no reader will face the light. The Book Stack will be lighted mainly from the top. 
 
 On the Library floor there will be two Conversation Rooms for the use of the students when not at work. 
 
 The architecture of the building is in the style of the English Classic, of the beginning of the XVIII 
 Century, or the Reign of William and Mary. 
 
SOUTH READING ROOM 
 
First Floor Plan 
 
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