Description of the Girard College for Orphans
Walter, Thomas U. Excerpt from Description of the Girard College for Orphans: Contained in a Final Report of the Building Committee to the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia, A Report to the Building CommitteeThe ¿ooring of the interior of the building amounts in the aggregate to superficial feet, all of Which is done with marble tiles prepared ex pressly for the work, they are sawed of uniform thickness, and the edges worked square so as to prevent the...