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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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NEW OFFICE BUILDING, UNITED TRACTION CO.. ALBANY. N. Y. office buildings which are used exclusively for transacting the of-fice work of the system. The United Traction Co., of Albany, N. Y., operating about ^^miles of track, has erected for this purpose a building which is ex-ceptionally elaborate and well arranged. The following descrip-tion and illustrations may prove suggestive to other companiesthat are preparing to engage new quarters. The building, which was completed in May, 1900, is on the cor-ner of Broadway and Columbia Sts., Albany, with a frontage of R*-r^-^-T-rf
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74 ft. on Broadway and 45 ft. on Columbia St. It has a basement,two stories and a loft under the roof, and is as near fire-proof asmodern architecture can make it. The only wood employed in itsconstruction is for doors, window frames and the decorative wains-coting in the directors room, all other material being stone, brick,mosaics or marble. The walls arc of gray brick and Indiana lime stone, with exterior decorations of columns and bas-relief panels.The building is entered from Broadway through an arch doorway.The outer vestibule is wainscoted to a height of 10 ft. fromthe floor with polished red marble and has a highly decoratedvaulted ceiling. This vestibule opens into an atrium or centralcorridor formed of four large archways. The atrium is wainscotedto a height of 10 ft. from the floor in light green polished marble.The entrance takes up one 01 the archways; the two archways at

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