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Augustana College (Illinois), Rock Island, Illinois – The Old Seminary, the Ascension Chapel, and Founders Hall (1923) Berry College – Ford buildings; Boğaziçi University - South Campus (previously known as Robert College), Turkey (1863) Boston College – specifically Gasson Hall, Devlin Hall, St. Mary's Hall, and Bapst/Burns Library
The contract was won by the Snead and Company Ironworks, which went on to install its standardized design in libraries around the country. [3] Notable examples are the Widener Library at Harvard and the seven level stack supporting the Rose Reading Room of the New York Public Library.
Sterling Memorial Library (SML) is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. The library's tower has sixteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes.
Bertram's architectural criteria included a lecture room, reading rooms for adults and children, a staff room, a centrally located librarian's desk, twelve-to-fifteen-foot ceilings, and large windows six to seven feet above the floor. No architectural style was recommended for the exterior, nor was it necessary to put Andrew Carnegie's name on ...
The reading room in Uris Library at Cornell University. The United States contains some of the largest academic libraries in the world. Among the most notable collections are those at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Columbia University. Many others were ...
3: Far Rockaway The third Carnegie library completed in Queens. [14] Destroyed by fire in 1962. 4: Flushing Kissena Boulevard and Main Street Demolished in 1955 [16] 5: Poppenhusen 121-23 14th Ave. and 13-16 College Point Blvd. Completed in 1904, it was the second Carnegie library completed in Queens. [14] 6: Richmond Hill 118-14 Hillside Ave ...
Wren Library seen from Nevile's Court The library's rear facade as seen from the River Cam The interior of the library, showing the limewood carvings by Grinling Gibbons Stained glass window and Lord Byron statue at Wren Library's south end Cloisters beneath Wren Library's main room The Wren Library (foreground) and University Library (background) viewed from the chapel tower at St John's College
Carrels originated in monasteries to help contain the cacophony of roomfuls of monks reading aloud, as was the early practice. [3] Carrels are first recorded in the 13th century at Westminster Abbey, London, on the Garth side of the North Walk, though they probably existed from the late years of the 12th century. [4] [5]