Monday, August 31, 2009

1913 Public Library, Prospect Park Branch, Brooklyn, NY

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Known as "Prospect Branch" until 1975, Park Slope Branch began at the turn of the century with a small collection of natural history books housed in Prospect Park's Litchfield Mansion. It soon moved to a storefront on Ninth Street, and in 1906 a Carnegie library was built across the street. Interior features include a stained-glass archways supported by freestanding columns, two tiled fireplaces and a vaulted, stained-glass ceiling- original details that remains today. [Thanks to the Brooklyn Public Library www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org]

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