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  2. Old Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Old Public Library is a historic library building in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The Richardsonian Romanesque structure was built in 1892 to a design by George G. Adams, a leading architect of public buildings in New England. The building is predominantly brownstone, with terracotta trim bands, an irregular and asymmetric massing with a tower ...

  3. Lawrence Public Library (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    The Lawrence Public Library is a public library located in Lawrence, Massachusetts. [1] It serves the City of Lawrence, and, through its membership in the Merrimac Valley Library Consortium (MVLC), all of the citizens of the MVLC multi-municipality regional library system. It is governed by a board of trustees consisting of seven members.

  4. Lawrence Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The library was originally established as a subscription-based library in 1854, but changed to a free public library upon the donation of a new building by Andrew Carnegie in 1904. The Carnegie library was the main headquarters of the NEKLS and the main library in Lawrence until 1972 when a new modern library replaced it.

  5. George G. Adams (architect) - Wikipedia

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    The former Lawrence Public Library, designed by Adams and completed in 1892. The Essex County Courthouse in Lawrence, completed in 1903. The Montpelier City Hall, completed in 1911. The Masonic Temple in Lawrence, completed in 1923. George G. Adams (August 26, 1850 – November 28, 1932) was an American architect from Lawrence, Massachusetts.

  6. Lawrence Library - Wikipedia

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    Richardson resolved the problem by creating one-and-a-half-story structures such as the Crane Memorial Library in Quincy, Massachusetts of 1880–83, which were divided into 3 vital sections, a reading room, and stacks flanking an entrance. The Lawrence Library is an adaptation of Richardson's libraries in both style and plan.

  7. Floor plan - Wikipedia

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    A floor plan is not a top view or bird's-eye view; it is a measured drawing to scale of the layout of a floor in a building. A top view or bird's-eye view does not show an orthogonally projected plane cut at the typical four foot height above the floor level.

  8. Copyright in architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first step of the infringement analysis, copying-in-fact, includes determining that the defendant actually copied the work as a factual matter. [53] Because direct evidence of copying is rare, courts tend to permit evidence showing that (1) the defendant had access to the copyrighted work and so had the opportunity to copy the work and (2) a sufficient degree of similarity exists between ...

  9. List of Brutalist structures - Wikipedia

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    Public Safety Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Libling Michener & Associates, 1965) Nova Scotia Fenwick Tower, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sydney P. Dumaresq, (1971) Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Leslie R. Fairn, (1966–71) Ontario Allen Square building, 180 King St. S Waterloo (1980)