History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

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the principal front. There is an excavation under ground of ten feet....
depth, throughout the entire area.:. _
It is designed by the architect for........ —
the heating apparatus, the storage of
fuel and other heavy articles. So -
much of the floor as is used, is to be
coaered with concrete.
The next above this is the FIRST
STORY; it is nineteen feet high, and
entirely above ground. The floor of
this story is supported by brick
arches; and in the halls the arches View of the New State House.
are double, one being two feet below the entire walls on both sides, consisting of
other, to form viaducts to supply the pilasters with their caps and bases, panrooms with fresh air. A layer of con- els and their borders, anddoor finish, are
crete covers the entire area of the arches, all to be of variagated marble, and the
and upon this, imbedded in cement, is ceiling to be frescoed. The Grand Corlaid the marble floors throughout. ridor, extending from the east portico to
On this floor we find private rooms for the Grand Stairway in the western
the Judges of the Supreme Court and wing, is so called in consideration of
committee rooms. The largest portion its great width-thirty-two feet-and
of this floor is devoted to the storage of because the pilasters are more massive
stationery, printing paper, and all arti- and the finish more elaborate than in the
cles connected with or used in any other Main Corridor.
part of the building. One of these rooms The rooms on the floor described are
is for the storage of Geological speci- to be used as follows: Governor's recepmens, and another for geological artists. tion' and private rooms; office of the
One or more is for the Adjutant Gene- Secretary of State; of the Treasurer of
ral's office and museum. This story, in State, and of the Auditor of Public Acaddition to the windows on all sides, is counts; Superintendent of Public Inlighted by a glass ceiling in the centre, struction; Superintendent of Public Inwhich forms the floor of the Rotunda struction's library; law library; State
above. document library; Attorney General's
Above this is the PRINCIPAL STORY, office; supreme court room; supreme
which is twenty-two feet and a half court clerk's office; four massive stone
from floor to ceiling. On this floor is fireproof vaults, and the State Treasuthe Main Corridor, running the entire rer's burglar-proofsae. The State Geollength of the building from north to ogist's museum, is just over the State
south, and the Grand Corridor crossing Geologist's store room in the first story,
it at right angles under the dome, and with which it is connected by a private
extending across the building from east stairway; State Geologist'soffice. With
to west. The Main Corridor is 359 feet all these, there are the necessary water
long, twenty-four feet wide and twenty- closets, wash rooms, private offices, and
two and a half feet high. the Grand Stairway which leads to the
story above. This flight is to be made of
* The sides of the Main Corridor will be Tennessee marble, the steps each sixteen
nished with marble pilasters projecting feet long.
ronm the walls, thus forming panels. The The floors of this story are supported
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