Jefferson Market Library
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United States > New York > Manhattan Community Board 2Faced with demolition in 1958, public outcry led to reuse this former Courthouse as a branch of the New York Public Library.Designed by Calvert Vaux & Frederick Withers in an neo-Venetian Gothic style and constructed in 1874 in an asymmetrical form with polychromatic materials, pinnacles, gables and stained glass windows. The building originally was used as a Courthouse, it was adapted into a library in 1967.The 172-foot pyramidal turret with clocks on all four sides once served as a fire watch tower with an alarm bell.
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charlotte63 31 de marzo de 2020 a las 07:00
When I was young I used to go there a lot