Materials
- Foundation: Brick, Concrete and Limestone
- Trusses: Steel
- Walls: Indiana Limestone
- Roof: Terra cotta Red Tile
- Wall Panels: Platinum leaf (eight reliefs of mythological figures only)
- Other: marble (plaques), wrought iron (gates & fences)
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Famous quotes containing the word materials:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)