Tompkins Square Library
Manhattan, United States
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Tompkins Square Library is a public library in Manhattan designed by the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1904. As a Carnegie library, it was part of the philanthropic initiative that brought modern library facilities to American communities in the early twentieth century. The building represents the firm's characteristic refined approach to civic architecture during the Beaux-Arts era.
Architect
- Built
- Type
- public library, library building, Carnegie library
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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