Tag: bookshelves
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February 19, 2016 at 01:32PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Inside the Hudson Park Library on Leroy Street. This branch of the New York Public Library was designed by architects Carrere and Hastings, and built in 1906 with funds from Andrew Carnegie. Don’t forget, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Marianne Moore worked here in the early 1920s! Thanks to everyone who came out to…
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February 14, 2016 at 04:05PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Inside away from the cold with stunning stained glass windows in the Jefferson Market Library, originally a courthouse designed in a Victorian Gothic Style by Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux, built 1875-77. In the late 1950s it became unused, and Greenwich Village community members fought off a planned demolition. It reopened in…