New Haven, CONNECTICUT - Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library ARCHITECTURE

Description: New Haven, CONNECTICUT - Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library - ARCHITECTURE: Sterling Memorial Library is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. It is elaborately ornamented, featuring extensive sculpture and painting as well as hundreds of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit. In addition to five large reading rooms, a Music Library, and courtyard on the ground floor, the library's tower has sixteen levels of book stacks containing over 4 million volumes. It connects via tunnel to the underground Bass Library, which contains an additional 150,000 volumes. The building's original architect, Bertram Goodhue, intended the library to resemble his State Capitol Building in Lincoln, Nebraska, with the library's books in a prominent tower. When Goodhue died in 1924, the project passed to James Gamble Rogers, the university's consulting architect. Originally, Rogers planned to balance the library with a 5,000-seat chapel on the opposite end of Cross Campus' main axis, but the absence of a financier and the end of compulsory undergraduate chapel services in 1926 scuttled the project. Instead, Rogers circumscribed Goodhue's tower plan with an "ecclesiastical metaphor": a cathedral plan, in Roger's words, "as near to modern Gothic as we dared to make it." vaulted nave as its entrance hall and commissioning extensive stained glass and stone ornament to decorate the building's interior. This Linen Era (1930-45) postcard is in good condition, but there is some soiling. Colorrati, Pearl River, NY. No. 29018. Published by AD Cozzolino, Inc. New Haven, Conn. No. 29018. D-16.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-02-08T02:47:17.000Z

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