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Legend has it that the books in the Bodleian Library in Oxford are sorted according to their size. This would appear to be the case - at least shelf by shelf - here, too. Dublin, September 2017.
Jefferson Hall, completed in August 2008, reflects the Academy’s ongoing commitment to academic excellence. The Cadet Library, the Center for Enhanced Performance and the Center for Teaching Excellence, all providers of student-centered information services, are now consolidated in one central location, directly along the path from the barracks to Thayer Hall.
Modern in design and composition, Jefferson Hall yet incorporates many of the characteristics of Central Area architecture, such as entry arches, limestone window surrounds and multi-paned windows. Special features include 8,000 amber-colored glass blocks on the north exterior wall of the ground floor and terracotta bricks on interior walls. New Hampshire granite, used on the exterior, is also incorporated in the interior walls of the lobby and sixth floor. The upholstered furniture was manufactured in North Carolina, and the wooden tables and chairs in Wisconsin.
Complete Tour Book available at: www.library.usma.edu/documents/JeffersonHallTourBook.pdf
We renewed our tickets to Leeds Castle in Kent yesterday after nearly a couple of years and it was nice to go round and get a few shots. This is one of my favourite rooms and is the library.
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Back cover of the 1896 catalogue of books in Deseronto Public Library, Deseronto, Ontario, advertising "John McCullough, Insurance, Real Estate and Loan Agent. Appraiser for the Canada Permament [Permanent] Loan and Savings Company. Special Agent, Sec.-Treasurer and Valuator for the Provincial Building and Loan Association. Rents & Accounts Collected. Conveyancer, and Commissioner for taking Affidavits. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates of continuing the listing of Class M (Miscellaneous) and with an advertisement for the "Canadian Interest. Office: St. George Street, Deseronto, Ont."
The History of the Ohio State Reformatory:
"The cornerstone laid on November 4, 1886 evolved into this magnificent Chateauesque structure. Cleveland architect Levi T. Scofield designed the Ohio State Reformatory using a combination of three architectural styles; Victorian Gothic, Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne. This was done to encourage inmates back to a "rebirth" of their spiritual lives. The architecture itself inspired them to turn away from their sinful lifestyle, and toward repentance
The Reformatory doors were opened to its first 150 young offenders in September 1896. After housing over 155,000 men in its lifetime, the doors to the prison closed December 31, 1990.
Today the Ohio State Reformatory Historic Site receives visitors from all over the world. Every year tourists, movie buffs, thrill seekers and paranormal investigators walk through the halls of this majestic structure.
SOURCE: www.mrps.org/
Ghostly History of OSR
As reported by News Channel 4, Columbus, Ohio 1997
Stone walls and iron bars they're still here, but what of the humanity, if you can call it that, of the old Ohio State Reformatory at Mansfield. What of the 154,000 inmates who passed through it's gates in it's 94 years as a working prison. Not to mention their keepers, the Wardens, and the Guards, the gravediggers, and the rest, what of them remains? As it turns out, more than you might think. No matter what their crime, some sent to Mansfield have never left. They rest unclaimed in a cheerless graveyard just outside the fence. 215 numbered markers laid out row on row. Most were victims of disease, influenza, tuberculosis, but some died of less natural causes; From the violence, that is all to common inside any prison and was far from unknown in this one. And the worst of it occurred well away from the main cell block with their rows of cages stacked tier on tier, and inmates, one or two to a cell. There were too many eyes, too many witnesses here, no the worst of it was reserved for a far lonelier place, deep beneath the prison ground. A place called local control, or solitary, by some, known by everyone else as the hole. Near total isolation can crack all but the toughest of cons, but none was so alone that there wasn't room for death. At least one inmate managed to hang himself, another set himself on fire, once two men left too long in a single tomb like cell, only one walked out, leaving his cellmate's body behind, stuffed beneath a bunk. Could there be other similar surprises? Or words left over from the days before the prison closed? Even when they're empty, some swear something walks these halls. It isn't enough for contemporary visitors not to wonder off alone while sight seeing, what‘s become one of Mansfield's more popular tourist attractions. But the bloodiest single incident in the old prison's history occurred outside it's walls. In July 1948, when the Reformatory's farm boss, his wife and daughter were kidnapped and shot to death by two parolees bent on revenge. A six state manhunt for the so called mad-dog killers ended in a shootout that left Robert Daniels of Columbus in custody and his partner, James West dead. "I'll get the Chair" Daniels told police as he signed the confession. And on January 3rd, 1949, he did. A year later in 1950 disaster struck again. This time, here in the living quarters of the Warden himself. The Warden's wife, removing a jewelry box from a closet shelf dislodged a pistol from it's hiding place. When it hit the floor, the gun went off inflicting a fatal wound. And within the decade, even more bad luck. The Warden, hard at work in his office, suffered a heart attack and died. All this was nearly 40 years ago and more, how then to explain the voices shaken tour guides swear they hear today? Man and woman talking, to faint to understand, to persistent to ignore and chilling to listeners who think they're alone, only to find themselves apparently eavesdropping on the warden and his wife locked forever in an endless conversation from beyond the grave.
Early 1900s postcard view of the interior of the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, once and future home of the Historical Society of Washington DC. The main entrance is off to the left. The old general circulation desk--long gone--is at the center. This space on the first floor will soon be home to an Apple store, but the Historical Society will return to the second floor.
Showcasing just a small portion of the Club's 15,000 books on exploration.
At the Explorer's Club in New York, NY.
Scranton Library sign in use from the expansion in 1989 to the renovation which began in 2018. Long rectangular brown sign made of wood with large routed-in letters reading, "Scranton Library". Letters are painted gold in the imprints, and they have faded outlines painted in blue around them. Square cutouts at each of the four corners. Imprinted tan border along the edges of the sign. Eight screws going through the sign in total, with four spaced out in a row near the top edge and and four similarly near the bottom edge. 11' long x 16" tall x 1 1/4" thick.
ACC# 2020.087.001
See flic.kr/s/aHsm5dTDVz for additional items in the Annex
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums).
The Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design, designed by Monica Ponce de Leon & Nader Tehrani of Office dA (now NADAAA) inside the historic Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank building (York & Sawyer, 1917)
Providence, Rhode Island.
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Continuing the glut of J3 photos with more from another visit and different elements of the design... including cake