1962 architecture for a branch library, with fancy 1962 AD.

My brain automatically converts the AD to CE because this "in the year of our Lord" nonsense is just silly to me.

 

Set your Big Gulp on that platform while you rummage through your messenger bag, looking for a thing.

 

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In Buffalo, New York, on June 11th, 2021, at the Dudley Branch Library on the east side of South Park Avenue (U.S. Route 62), south of Lockwood Avenue.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Buffalo (7013463)

• Erie (county) (1002356)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• branch libraries (buildings) (300006878)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• brick red (color) (300311462)

• ceramic tile (300010678)

• cornerstones (300002616)

• date stones (300374978)

• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)

• platforms (general) (300375665)

• public libraries (buildings) (300006877)

 

Wikidata items:

• 11 June 2021 (Q69306079)

• 1960s in architecture (Q11185676)

• 1962 in architecture (Q2812303)

• Anno Domini (Q159791)

• Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Q4985640)

• Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area (Q199196)

• Dudley Branch Library (Q107351502)

• June 11 (Q2617)

• June 2021 (Q61312778)

• push-button (Q870870)

• South Buffalo (Q7566450)

• South Park Avenue (Q7568156)

• swing-door operator (Q7658502)

• U.S. Route 62 (Q409975)

• Western New York (Q7988104)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Public libraries—New York (State) (sh2010108953)

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