1906 Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

[LIB11013] The Howard-Tilton name comes from a merging in 1938 of the Howard Memorial Library, a private collection that in the 19th century was open to public users and located on Camp Street in downtown New Orleans, and Tulane's former Tilton Library (built in 1902), which was the first free standing library building on the university's uptown campus. [Website]

1908, Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

[LIB10996] This is an original 1908 black and white halftone print of  "The Howard Memorial Library," in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

[LIB10986] Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), a native of Louisiana, created an architectural style of his own, ‘Richardsonian Romanesque’ characterized by a massive, solid stone appearance contrasted with squat towers, Romanesque arches, recessed entrances and bands of windows. This building was built posthumously, in 1889, from an enlarged design he had submitted for the Hoyt Memorial Library in East Saginaw, Michigan. The stone used on this construction is Massachusetts sandstone. The Seal of New Orleans has been carved over the entrance. Inside, the reading room is a grandly scaled circular room with a massive hooded fireplace and an intricate dome-like hammerbeam ceiling carved with wolves.