sentences:  A winding marble staircase leads up to this room that is crowned by a brick, copper and stained glass dome rising above the ground.The dome, constructed by the R. Guastavino Company, is one of the more than 1,000 they built, including those at the library of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. 
  
  Charles W. Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, later AlliedSignal, acquired a number of contiguous farms in 1912 and created a estate with formal gardens in West Orange, New Jersey.The Nichols family used the property as a summer weekend retreat and occupied a small farmhouse.