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Show i'i New York Preserves - Types of Oilier . i imas $ Xew York. The " facade of X die old United States Assay Of- X Y flee building, which formerly ? ij! stood at 15 Wall street, has been' V, ; reassembled stone by stone as y -j- the front of the new American 'X ving of the Metropolitan" Mu- i seum of Art in Central park. i ' " The new wing will be devoted V, entirely to American art of the -j X colonial, revolutionary nnd re- X publican periods, and will be a formally thrown open to the X public November 10. y y This building will be unique X X in that its IS rooms for the most y part will be- constructed of the X actual woodwork that formed X y the walls and ceiiings of his- X toi'ie and characteristic early X rooms. -j X Collections of objects of Amer- X X ican furniture, silverware, glass y ! and pottery of the Seventeenth, X Eighteenth and early Nineteenth ! centuries will be shown in the .s X appropriate rooms. y . V i4.xk-;'-:'v':-:X''K"CK"K'v |