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The Bayside branch has moved four times; 1906-1911, Bell Avenue, near Palace Avenue, Bayside: 1912-1934, at Elsie Pl. and 1st St: 1935-1965, 39-28 Bell Boulevard, Bayside: and 1965-its present location. [2] 7: Bellerose: 250-06 Hillside Avenue, Bellerose, NY 11426 The Bellerose branch was first opened on February 27, 1978. [2] 8: Briarwood
Opened on December 16, 2013, the Mariners Harbor Library is located amidst the rich maritime heritage of Staten Island's Mariners Harbor neighborhood. A single-story branch library situated on a 16,000-square foot plot, Mariners Harbor is the thirteenth branch of The New York Public Library on Staten Island and serves roughly 30,000 people. [29] 85
Lee-Robbins was born to Samuel Howland Robbins and Sophia Morgan Robbins, both of wealthy banking families, on 24 June 1865 [2] in New York. [3] She and her family moved to Paris in the 1880s. In 1884 she joined a women's atelier run by Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner. The same year her portrait was painted by Carolus-Duran. [2]
Central Library was the first major branch of an urban library to place all public services on one floor. The library cost $5.7 million and contained 195,000 square feet (18,100 m 2) of floor space. The library was renovated and expanded in 1989. Additional renovation and expansion was expected to be completed in 2013.
The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07810-7. Sherman, Scott (2015). Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library, Brooklyn; London : Melville House, ISBN 978-1-61219-429-5
The Central Library is the main branch of the Somerville, Massachusetts, public library system. It is an architecturally distinguished Renaissance Revival brick building designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton and was built in 1914 with funding assistance from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie . [ 2 ]
Catherine Wells (née Amy Catherine Robbins; [1] 8 July 1872 – 6 October 1927) [2] [3] [4] was an English writer and poet. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] She was a former student of H. G. Wells , to whom she was married from 1895 until her death.
The Lenox Library is the principal public library of Lenox, Massachusetts. It is managed by the non-profit Lenox Library Association, founded in 1856, and is located at 18 Main Street, in the former Berkshire County Courthouse that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .