Addition to the Boston Public Library – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Addition to the Boston Public Library, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Addition to the Boston Public Library
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The Boston Public Library's Copley Square campus is best known for Charles Follen McKim's 1895 Italian Renaissance–style building, with its grand staircase and the vaulted Bates Hall reading room. Additions were built alongside that landmark as the library's collections and public services outgrew it. The most debated of these is the later extension designed by Philip Johnson, whose modern, austere lines were chosen to sit beside McKim's classical facade. Architects, critics and Bostonians still argue over whether the contrast works, and the pairing has become a useful case study in how civic buildings add to older ones.
| Original scan | 6,194 × 5,055 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15342_AdditiontotheBostonPublicLibra |
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