University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER HALL Completion of the University Library The completion of the Library Building will include two stories and an attic above all of the rear portion of the present building. The main stack room will also be finished and equipped with the entire north half of the stacks themselves. A new reading room, accommodating 216 readers, will occupy the east side of the building, running through two stories. The west side of the building, in the reading room story, will be occupied by the library administration. The rest of the new structure will be given up to seminars, special reading rooms, library school, offices, and studies. The convenience of the building will be very greatly increased by the installation of a basement entrance on the south side of the building, with a corridor leading through to a staircase com- municating directly with the main north entrance. The cost of the work will be about -$525,000. The exterior walls will be of granite to match the present building. The New Wing of the Agricultural Building The building now proposed will be placed to the west of the original building. It will be somewhat irregular in shape, facing west, toward and some distance back from Oxford Street. It will form the west side of a large quadrangle defined on the south by the present building. thirteen

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UNIV6E5ITV Si JOHN GALEN HOWARD Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall ENJAMIN IDE WHEELER HALL will be the largest and most useful building on the campus. It is planned primarily as a class room building and will accommodate about 3000 students. The principal hall is situated in the center of the building, with seats for 1000. In addition to the many other smaller lecture rooms, a large room will be provided for Faculty meetings. In the top story a large number of offices and studies for the Faculty will be arranged. The entire exterior of the building will be of granite, in accordance with the Hearst plan. The design sug- gests the New England Colonial style, recalling in this respect the old- time American college devoted to the humanities. The building, which is scheduled to be completed by December 30, 1916, will cost about $700,000. Looking north from Sather Gate, the appearance of the campus will be materially improved by the addition of Wheeler Hall. DOE LIBRARY twelve

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While following out in a general way the lines of the present building, the new wing will be built of concrete finished in ce- ment, the character of the material being carefully studied in order to bring out its aesthetic possibili- ties, thus differentiating it from the original granite structure. The cost of the work now proposed will be about $350,000. The Chemistry Building The building proposed at present is only a small por- tion of the eventual entire Chemistry group or connex. It will be built of concrete finished in cement and planned in such a way that future extensions can be added without interfering PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR OF WHEELER HALL with the part already built. This wing, which will be used primarily as a research laboratory, will be located between the old Chemistry Building and East Hall directly over the old Chem. CHEMISTRY BUILDING, THE EAST WING OF WHICH W ILL SOON BE BUILT fourteen