Items of Interest October 8, 1932 Issue

Items of Interest

Approaching The Mother Church edifice along the Fenway boulevard one notes a change in the skyline. In proper proportion to the height of the dome on the Church extension, towers the steel framework of Section "A" of the Publishing House. It is evident that a wide panorama can be seen from this tower, but as the tile-concrete floors are not yet built between the girders of the upper stories and one must clamber along steel beams, we shall defer describing the view of Boston and vicinity, including that of Boston Harbor, which the venturesome may now obtain.

The powerful steel derricks which operated from near the top of the steel tower have been dismantled and smaller derricks, erected on top of one of the projecting stories, have lowered them in sections to the street. The eight wooden derricks used in setting stone on Section "B" will shortly be removed to Section "A," since on "B" the stone setting is almost completed, there remaining to be erected only a small section of the parapet and the side walls of the penthouse and fourth story, which for architectural purposes are set back from the outer walls.

The granite "grass course," so called, is already being set on Section "A." Unlike Section "B," the walls of this part of the Publishing House will be constructed of brick faced with limestone, the limestone and brick being laid simultaneously. The stone is dovetailed directly into the brick with metal anchors.

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