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 88 Sloan's Architectural Review, and Builder's Journal. [August, THE GAZETTE. ABSTRACT OF IMPORTANT BUILDINGS ERECTING.* By Addison Htjtton. For the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. Banking Office, S. W. corner of Walnut street and West Washington Square, city. Style, Italian : massive. Material, granite ; from the Quincy quarries, Massachusetts. Edifice, 51 feet front, 130 feet depth, height two stories. Interior arrangement most com- plete. All possible conveniences for the comfort of the officers and clerks. For the Congregation of the Arch street Methodist Church. Church build- ing, S. E. corner of Broad and Arch streets.. Style, Gothic. Material, white- marble, from the Lee quarries, Massa- chusetts. Edifice, front 75 feet ; depth 99 feet 7 inches. Face, on Arch street. At the very corner of Broad and Arch, a tower and spire, height 220 feet 6 inches. A very imposing structure. ing notices lor this department ; short, pithy and index- like.— Ed.] By Samuel Sloan. For Middletown, Del., Town Hall; in progress. Style, Italian. Material, brick, painted stone color, with stone dressings, &c. Edifice, front 68 feet, depth 70 feet, height three stories First story, four stores, with a spacious en- trance and stairway to the stories above. Second story, the Hall, with its dressing rooms, &c. Over the latter, an entresol, 14 feet by 45 for refreshment rooms, &c. Third story, two lodge rooms and a library. All commodious, well lighted and ventilated, with all the conveniences in all its apartments, necessary either for its stated or transient inmates. For the Presbyterian Congregation of Bridgeton, N. J. A church ; style, Gothic. Material, walls, light-colored stone, from Leiperville quarries, Dela- ware county, Pa. Dressings for doors, windows, corners, buttress-caps, and base course, brown stone. Width, 33 feet ; depth, 100 feet ; tower and spire, 165 feet high. On one flank achapel, 53 feet wide, 60 feet long, connected with the church edifice by a vestibule 12 feet wide. REMARKABLE QUA KEY. Agate Marble. A reliable correspondent gives us a brief sketch of a deposit of singularly beautiful marble, situated in Rockbridge county, Virginia, on the borders of North river, near the Rockbridge Baths, about 11 miles from Lexington and 9 miles from Goshen. A line of roadway from Goshen to Lexington gives the means of ready transportation to mar- ket ; and this finely veined stone will soon take high rank among the orna- mental marbles. The deposit is overlaid with some ten feet of ordinary limestone, and rests against a steep hill. To uncover the treasure is a work of much labor, but the superincumbent crust has already been removed a number of feet up the hill, and the mass uncovered about ten feet, ver- tically, on the north side, giving the general outline of an irregular boulder- shaped rock, which seems to extend
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