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  2. Seattle Central Library - Wikipedia

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    The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle , Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004.

  3. Seattle Public Library - Wikipedia

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    Central Library, looking south on Fifth Avenue The Occidental Block in 1900; to its rear left is a corner of the Collins Block, still standing as of 2008. The Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the public library system serving the city of Seattle, Washington. Efforts to start a Seattle library had commenced as early as 1868, with the system ...

  4. Office for Metropolitan Architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Seattle Central Library was completed and opened to the public on May 23, 2004. [10] In 2005, the library earned a national American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture. [ 11 ] The building has also been described as "the most important new library to be built in a generation, and the most exhilarating" by New Yorker ...

  5. Architecture of Seattle - Wikipedia

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    The current Central Library is the third on the site, preceded by a Beaux-Arts Carnegie library (built 1904–1906, demolished 1957) designed by Peter J. Weber, a German-born architect from Chicago [215] [216] and an International Style replacement opened 1960, with Bindon & Wright as the primary architect and Decker Christenson & Kitchin as ...

  6. Fountain of Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    Fountain of Wisdom is a fountain and sculpture by George Tsutakawa, installed out the Seattle Central Library, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] [2] References

  7. List of Carnegie libraries in Washington (state) - Wikipedia

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    Built by Causey and Carney. Razed 1957-8 for new Library 25: Seattle Ballard: Seattle: March 27, 1903: $15,000 2026 Northwest Market Street, Seattle, WA. 98107-4080 Designed in the Neoclassical Revival style by Henderson Ryan. Library moved to new quarters in 1963. Building currently houses a bar called Kangaroo and Kiwi. 26: Seattle Columbia ...

  8. Metropolitan Tract - Wikipedia

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    The tract includes the original site of the University of Washington campus. In 1895 the university moved to its present site. [1] Initially, the University's new law school used one of the old university buildings, and the main, original building was leased first to Seattle Public Schools and then to the Seattle Public Library.

  9. List of libraries in Seattle - Wikipedia

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    PNA Tool Library Phinney Neighborhood Association tool library Harl V. Brackin Library Museum of Flight: museum [2] SE Seattle Tool Library non-profit organization Seattle Architecture Foundation Library Seattle Architecture Foundation: non-profit organization Seattle Children's Hospital Library and Information Commons Seattle Children's: non ...