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Brown University Library Buildings

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  • (Photograph by Dietrich Neumann)
  • (Photograph by Dietrich Neumann)
  • (Photograph by Patricia Lynette Searl)
  • (Photograph by Patricia Lynette Searl)
  • (Photograph by Dietrich Neumann)
  • (Photograph by Dietrich Neumann)
  • (Photograph by Dietrich Neumann)
  • (Photograph by Dietrich Neumann)

In addition to a good portion of the stylistic history of collegiate building, the Brown central campus also offers a typological study of the development of library buildings. In the beginning there was a book room in University Hall, succeeded by the room below the chapel in Manning Hall (now a classroom). Next, in succession, are the three buildings in an L-plan cluster just outside the campus fence and a fourth of a block east on Waterman Street.

Writing Credits

Author: 
William H. Jordy et al.
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What's Nearby

Martin Page–Horace Buffum–George W. Gardner House
Maddock Alumni Center, Brown University
Nicholson House
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Brown University Faculty Club

Citation

William H. Jordy et al., "Brown University Library Buildings", [Providence, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-PR115.

Print Source

Buildings of Rhode Island, William H. Jordy, with Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 102-102.

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