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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Dedication of Hodgson Hall
Library Room in the Southern States. To the right of the vestibule is the Librarian's room, and to the left the main stairway to the lower floor. The book shelves run around three sides of the Hall, and are detached from the walls, leaving a passage way, into which Opens the lower line of windows, used chiefly for ventilation. These shelves admit books both on the hall side and in the passage way, thus providing for double the number of volumes that could other wise be received. This passage is well lighted by gas brackets.
At a convenient elevation is the main gallery, reached by handsome stairs and running around the Hall, and is enclosed by a neat iron rail. Book shelves fill the walls of this gallery, from which there is a fine view of the whole interior. The entire shelving of the Hall will accommodate over twenty thousand volumes. Above this gallery, encircling the whole building, is a narrower gallery built for ornament and access to the upper and main windows, which furnish the well-distributed light to the whole Hall. This gallery is accessible only by the spiral staircase in the southwest angle, leading from the ground floor to the roof.
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