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| GRAND LOGGIA OF MACHINERY HALL - This noble
veranda was exposed to the view of all the assemblages for which the
Administration plaza remains famous. Few persons looked upon its
rich details - its grilled windows, paneled ceils, ornate
door-casings, mural colors, Corinthian columns, fluted pilasters,
balustrade, and its noble length, without feeling the inadequacy of
time given for the proper appreciation of so much taste and labor.
The possessor of this volume will behold good pictures of Machinery Hall at a distance, and will see
that the structure possessed beauty and integrity. He will have
views of the portals, pediments, spires
and statuary, giving him opportunity for
the study of elementary beauties. And now the engraving represents,
without exaggeration, the aspect of grandeur which belonged locally
to the Palace of the Mechanic Arts. No doubt time would have adopted
the nobler name; for the blue and gold, the wealth of decoration, the
vistas, the troops of angels hovering near, the companies of graces
and muses that met all summer on the arches, added poetry to
invention, and gave to the wheels and grunting iron arms within their
meed of the spiritual that dwells in all the works of man. This
loggia overlooked the parade-ground in front of the Terminal Station,
and also the spot on which that envious ikon, the Troy Bell, was
gradually and industriously made remarkable by having distinguished
visitors pull its rope. |
