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Essential Architecture- Boston Boston Public Library |
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architect |
McKim, Mead & White |
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Boston, MA |
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1887-98 (H:1888-95) |
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style |
Renaissance Revival |
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construction |
Stone |
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Library |
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| main front, photo J. Howe. | |
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| from an old postcard of Copley Square. view of west side of Copley Square (New Old South Church at right, 1874-75; Cummings & Sears, architects) | |
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| upper floor plan, from Alfred Hoyt. Granger, Charles Follen McKim (Boston, 1913), opp. p. 25. | |
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| stairhall from below and book delivery room, photo 1983, P. Scott. | |
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| interior, Bates Hall, early photo, Lantern Slide Coll., GSD, Harvard U. [Images of America, Library of Congress]: (#X227/d5) | |
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| courtyard arcade and garden, photo P. Scott. | |
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links |
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| www.essential-architecture.com | |