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The McKim Building is the main branch of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts.The building, described upon its 1895 opening as a "palace for the people", contains the library's research collection, exhibition rooms, and administrative offices.
Boston Public Library has two digital partners-in-residence at the Central Library in Copley Square. The first is Internet Archive , a nonprofit digital library that offers permanent access to historical collections in digital format for researchers, historians, and the general public.
It is located in the McKim Building of the Central Library in Copley Square. The center was founded in 2004 with a $10 million endowment as a public-private partnership between the Boston Public Library (BPL) and map collector and philanthropist Norman B. Leventhal. [1] [2]
Masonic parade on Huntington Ave. through Copley Square, Boston, 1895. One of the most popular attractions in Copley Square is the Farmers Market, held Tuesdays and Fridays from May through November. [12] (During the 2023–2024 reconstruction of the park, the market is held in front of the Public Library on Dartmouth.)
Synagogue is an allegorical mural by John Singer Sargent in the Boston Public Library. [1] It is part of Sargent's larger Triumph of Religion mural cycle in the library's central branch at Copley Square. Synagogue was unveiled in 1919, and it sparked immediate controversy. [2]
Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, also known as New Old South Church or Third Church, is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, completed in 1873, and amplified by the architects Allen & Collens between 1935–1937.
Huntington Avenue, Boston, near the Christian Science Center, as viewed from the Prudential Tower (2009). Huntington Avenue is a thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods.
Free public library buildings of Massachusetts: a roll of honor, 1918. Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919 Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919 External links