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Great American Libraries

Design Log

12 Jan
The Boston Public Library

Important architecture as vessels for protecting human knowledge is nothing new. In the ancient world, both east and west, libraries served as sanctuaries for chronicles, sacred writings and literature. The same is true for the modern age in America. Here are a few of our favorites:

 

The Library of Congress in Washington DC
1886, architect, John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz
The New York Public Library
1902, architect Carrere and Hastings
The Boston Public Library
1895, architect Charles Follen McKim

The George Peabody Library, Baltimore MD
1878, architect Edmund G Lind
Bienecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
1963, architects Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill
Riggs Library, Georgetown University
1889

Harvard Library (Widner building) Harvard University,
1915, architect Horace Trumbauer and Associates
Los Angeles Central Library
1926, architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue

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