People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — NEW LIBRARY BUILDING FOR The UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW LIBRARY BUILDING FOR The UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

The new library building which is to go up at Madison, Wis., for the use of the university will be one of the prettiest structures in the state. The entire cost will be in the neighborhood of 1400,000. That portion that is to be built for the use of the State Historical Society will be begun in July, and although the work must be slow until the full appropriation be made, it will not be stopped. The material will be light colored stone and the exterior architecture in the lonic order of the Renaissance. The main entrance is led up to by a balustrade terrace six feet high, and the portal is three-arched. The

first floor is divided into seminary, packing and sorting rooms, pn the second floor is the reading-room, 5Qx 70 feet, with accommodations for 300 readers. Opening upon its sides are newspaper and magazine rooms. * third floor will be used chieflytfor a large lecture-room. The building is so planned that it may be extended akmg its length if necessary. As the original, however, will be constructed with a capacity for 600,000 volumes, it is not believed an increase of space will be. { needed for many years. The building will be erected on the West portion of the lower campus.