Excerpt from Opening of the Layton Art Gallery, Thursday, April 5th, A. D. 1888 Our building is now about completed, and I think I may say we have one of the most beautiful art galleries, of its size, on this side of the Atlantic. No money or labor has been spared to make it as near fire proof as possible; the walls are twice the thickness of ordinary walls, and will stand for ages. The ground on which it is built is a well known landmark, where our first Episcopal church, old St. Paul's, stood for many years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.