rooms, lighted from above, each of which is to be allotted to a racial group of foreign-born Americans within the community, and their individual hall is to be used by them both as a meeting place and headquarters at all times, as well as for the exhibition of their national art and other features, thus providing graphic reproductions of their historic background and culture for the benefit of any visitor. The rooms will be open at all times to the general public as an educational feature, and will also serve as passages and exits from the circulatory corridor surrounding the large auditorium in the rear to the memorial corridor at the front ot the building.
Other rooms opening from the corridor and halls at each end would provide simple yet dignified meeting places, accommodating twenty-five to three hundred people, for public committees, or for convention purposes, or for the headquarters of military
and naval organizations. The wing at the right is especially intended to be used for large city receptions and other municipal gatherings, the Hall of the Army providing a dignified meeting place, and Massachusetts Hall beyond (65 by 150 ft. in size) being available for large banquets, military dances, or gatherings of the war veterans, or for convention purposes. This banquet hall communicates directly with the speaker’s platform in the large Civic Auditorium, which will make it possible for the city to entertain visiting notables with a banquet in Massachusetts Hall, taking them afterwards into the Civic Auditorium, where a larger public meeting might have been arranged.
The purpose of the building is expressed on the exterior main fagade by a colonnade, each column of which would represent one of the allied nations and support a figure symbolic of that nation or representing its national hero, while the frieze of the entablature would be carved with the nations names. At the rear of the Memorial Pantheon is the large auditorium, also approached from the street at the back, which is an important thoroughfare traversed by street car lines. The auditorium has a floor 80 ft. wide by 150 ft. long, from which rise tiers of seats on all four sides, reached from outer circulatory corridors entirely surrounding the hall. A similar arrangement occurs on each floor, serving convenience of access and insulating the auditorium from outer noise, the seats being continued in a deeply pitched balcony above, ending at the back in a colannade that is carried entirely around the top of the auditorium, which is 150 by 250 ft. in size. The seating capacity of the auditorium is about 6000 people, with an opportunity for six hundred to eight hundred more to stand in the colonnaded gallery behind the balcony seats. Besides the speaker’s stand at one end, opposite which is a “Presidential Box,” intended for use on national occasions, there are two other permanent boxes, one for the Mayor and one for the Governor, located in the center of the auditorium on each side, connected with retiring rooms beneath by a private staircase.
The street at the rear is at a lower level, so that it is also possible to approach or empty the floor directly from a corridor on a lower story than that shown at the back of the seating tier on the principal floor plan. Some idea of the general arrangement can best be obtained from the sections appearing at each side of the view of the auditorium in
Other rooms opening from the corridor and halls at each end would provide simple yet dignified meeting places, accommodating twenty-five to three hundred people, for public committees, or for convention purposes, or for the headquarters of military
and naval organizations. The wing at the right is especially intended to be used for large city receptions and other municipal gatherings, the Hall of the Army providing a dignified meeting place, and Massachusetts Hall beyond (65 by 150 ft. in size) being available for large banquets, military dances, or gatherings of the war veterans, or for convention purposes. This banquet hall communicates directly with the speaker’s platform in the large Civic Auditorium, which will make it possible for the city to entertain visiting notables with a banquet in Massachusetts Hall, taking them afterwards into the Civic Auditorium, where a larger public meeting might have been arranged.
The purpose of the building is expressed on the exterior main fagade by a colonnade, each column of which would represent one of the allied nations and support a figure symbolic of that nation or representing its national hero, while the frieze of the entablature would be carved with the nations names. At the rear of the Memorial Pantheon is the large auditorium, also approached from the street at the back, which is an important thoroughfare traversed by street car lines. The auditorium has a floor 80 ft. wide by 150 ft. long, from which rise tiers of seats on all four sides, reached from outer circulatory corridors entirely surrounding the hall. A similar arrangement occurs on each floor, serving convenience of access and insulating the auditorium from outer noise, the seats being continued in a deeply pitched balcony above, ending at the back in a colannade that is carried entirely around the top of the auditorium, which is 150 by 250 ft. in size. The seating capacity of the auditorium is about 6000 people, with an opportunity for six hundred to eight hundred more to stand in the colonnaded gallery behind the balcony seats. Besides the speaker’s stand at one end, opposite which is a “Presidential Box,” intended for use on national occasions, there are two other permanent boxes, one for the Mayor and one for the Governor, located in the center of the auditorium on each side, connected with retiring rooms beneath by a private staircase.
The street at the rear is at a lower level, so that it is also possible to approach or empty the floor directly from a corridor on a lower story than that shown at the back of the seating tier on the principal floor plan. Some idea of the general arrangement can best be obtained from the sections appearing at each side of the view of the auditorium in