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Headquarters of Edwin Bailey (& Sons). E. Bailey had arrived from England as a child, spent a year aboard a ship in the Asia trade, returned possibly already with carpentry skills, opened a shop (on Lake St., where the Carnegie Library was later built), then gradually built up his business, gradually forging a local lumber empire, replete with specialized buildings, such as the Planing Mill (above right). Note these buildings proximity to the rail line (to NYC), undoubtedly aiding in business transactions, bith large and small.
As you walk in the front doors of the library you walk into the large atrium that continues across the entire building.
One effect of the atrium is to seperate the building into two halves. The library store is directly to your left (not in site). There were many stacks on the left hand side (the right hand side felt more like the public part of the library).
The atrium has a nice effect, but it does have a mall-sort of feel when you first enter the building. It creates a public walkway between Nicollet Avenue and Hennepin Avenues (even if there is no natural reason to go between these two avenues, unless you are going to other places - that is - there is not really any development on either end of the atriums (although both a major commercial streets).
The George Peabody Library is a remarkable research library housed in a remarkable building in the Mount Vernon Cultural District of Baltimore, Maryland. Begun in 1860, the library collection contains over 300,000 volumes largely from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Picture yourself in history. Visit our green screen photo booth to have your photo taken in an iconic Western Australian location. View historical and contemporary photographs from the State Library of Western Australia collections, side by side in the accompanying Then and Now display.
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The Berlin Brain, located on the campus of the Free University of Berlin in Germany, is a truly unique library structure. The glass and steel edifice, which contains both active and passive energy-saving designs, is officially named the Philological Library, but has been nicknamed “the Berlin Brain” because of its resemblance to the shape of a human brain.
British architect Norman Foster designed the unusual building, which opened in 2005. The mass of the overall concrete structure acts as a thermal funnel and its double skin canopy and double floor act as an air duct and heat buffer. According to the weather, the building is either heated or cooled by water pipes embedded in the concrete slab floor. The Brain “breathes” to provide better ventilation and regulate the internal temperature by opening or closing the exterior flaps.
Freaky Friday is the culmination of the Summer programs for the Tweens and Young Adults. They get to come to the library after hours on Friday and have pizza, games and win prizes! This year was a blast!
The library lost power during the October storm, and it's predicted to be out for a few days. The big "CLOSED" sign can be seen from the street.
Leeds Public Library, Calverley Street, Leeds. Designed by George Corson and completed 1884, originally it also contained Municipal Offices. The Building was extended in 1886-1888 to incorporate an Art Gallery by W H Thorp.
Notes : the library interior at the Winter opening. The mural shows William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) English merchant, diplomat and writer; thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
"LIBRARY CENTRE AT KATOOMBA
After the Minister for Education, Mr. Evatt, had opened the Katoomba Boys' and Girls' Library and Crafts Club on Saturday afternoon, children stayed to read books beside the library fire. The club, which is the eighth centre of the Children's Library Movement, is built from six disused garages, which have been converted into one central library, opening into two craft rooms on either side. It features murals designed by Dahl Collings and Elaine Haxton. Those present at the opening included the president of the local auxiliary, Dr. E. Dark, and Mrs. Eleanor Dark; the Mayor of Katoomba, Alderman Freelander, and the organising secretary of the Children's Library Movement, Mrs. Mary Matheson"
SMH Monday 27 July, 1942
Format: B&W print
Location: Katoomba
Date range: 1942
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 909:
Provenance: John Apthorp
Links:
LIBRARY CENTRE AT KATOOMBA (1942, July 27). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved April 15, 2024, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17814919
Dahl Collings 1908-1988 - recollection.com.au/biographies/dahl-collings
Elaine Haxton AM (1909–1999) - www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2008.26/elaine-haxton
William Caxton - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton
Photograph of mural painting for the Blue Mountains Kindergarten by Dahl Collings - collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/319013
The L.A. Central Public Library's interior rotunda is decorated with murals painted in 1932 by Dean Cornwall.
Fireplace in the Main Reading Room of the Great Library, Osgoode Hall, Toronto.
Date: [between 1920 and 1940]
Photographer: unknown
Reference code: P256
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Originally opened on 30th May 1963, this wonderful listed building was designed by Henry Faulkner Brown.
The library closed in 2013, but a group of residents put together a plan, formed a listed company and charity, and it reopened at the end of 2013. It was bright, welcoming and busy on a rainy Thursday evening.