Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14738419586)

Identifier: baltimoreohioemp03balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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IMIOSINC; DOMK OF TUK IALACK OF H( )HTI(r I.TF in;The upper portion of this exquisite structure, which is 660x320 feet, is of Saracenic architecture. The (lonift sugRCst^ the famous mosque of tlie Sultan Ahmed I of Constantinople. The lower portion is adorned witli the decorations of tluEighteenth Century French Henaiss-incc. The dome, which is 1,S5..5 feet in height and 152 feet in diameter, consists of asteel framework covered with opalescent glass made in Austria. Hy day the sunshine through the dome casts an opales-cent light in the vast conservatory beneath; by night colored searchlights plaving on the dome from the interior willmake it visible for a great distance. somewhat in shape the great plaza ai>proaching the C hurch of St. Peter atRome. The effcut of th(» court is mag-nificent. Corinthian cohnnns encircle it.The walls of the palace behind the columnsiivv colored a burnt sienna, while the the court it opens into the (ourt of Palms.The east court or Court of Abundance,i