A GLASS AND STEEL CHURCH.
i A glass and steel structure has I been devised for a Methodist church i in Pes Voines, lowa, and the use of these materials for this purpose has occasioned some remark among engineers and architects. The framework is of steel, and the intervening spaces, will be filled with an opalescent wire-glass, which will give the appearance of marble, while at the same time possessing certain distinct advantages over that material. There is a double steel frame giving a foot of dead air-space between the glazed surfaces, the outside wall and the dome being made exclusively of glass. The structure, in short, is the same as that employed in I stone fronts, and has the advantage ! of being more economical than pres- | sed brick by from 10 to 25 per cent. i while also it is easy to erect and | maintain, as ii resists lire, and will | not absorb dust. The glass plates i are clamped on cushions of asbestos felt, which permits of expansion or \of settlement without any external evidence of such action, and the whole structure is strong and compact, yet at the same time any individual plate or section can be replaced readily.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 7
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202A GLASS AND STEEL CHURCH. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 7
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