Most Beautiful College Libraries

College Search & Selection
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<p>The</a> Most Beautiful College Libraries (PHOTOS)</p>

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<p>Yes, very beautiful.</p>

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<p>Bright and modern is good too, though. (i.e. Middlebury)</p>

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<p>Dartmouth, Harvard, Duke.</p>

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<p>At Harvard, Widener Library is impressive, dazzling, and filled with priceless manuscripts. But its not the most comfortable place in the world. All the students are next door at unassuming Lamont Library where there’s a coffee shop and portable, cushy furniture.</p>

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<p>The Walsh Library at Fordham Rose Hill main campus is very attractive and the cornerstone to the campus entrance on Fordham Road and Third Ave, just adjacent to the Metro North Train Station (New Haven Line-Grand Central Terminal). </p>

<p>But I also say that any college in New York can claim the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan as “theirs.” Its one of the most beautiful buildings in NYC.</p>

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<p>Vintage Side (Facing East) </p>

<p><a href=“http://msidesign.com/wp-content/uploads/osu-william-oxley-thompson-library/full-3.jpg[/url]”>http://msidesign.com/wp-content/uploads/osu-william-oxley-thompson-library/full-3.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Grand Reading Room (wide-angle shot)</p>

<p><a href=“http://gigapan.org/gigapans/31142-1600x748.jpg[/url]”>http://gigapan.org/gigapans/31142-1600x748.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Renovated Side (Facing West)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.jeffsimpsondesign.com/images/jeff_simpson_ohio_state_thompson_library_01.jpg[/url]”>http://www.jeffsimpsondesign.com/images/jeff_simpson_ohio_state_thompson_library_01.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.jeffsimpsondesign.com/images/jeff_simpson_ohio_state_thompson_library_03.jpg[/url]”>http://www.jeffsimpsondesign.com/images/jeff_simpson_ohio_state_thompson_library_03.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Oval Panorama</p>

<p><a href=“http://msidesign.com/wp-content/uploads/osu-william-oxley-thompson-library/full-5.jpg[/url]”>http://msidesign.com/wp-content/uploads/osu-william-oxley-thompson-library/full-5.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Go Bucks!!! lol</p>

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<p>Previous thread on the topic:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/940681-most-beautiful-college-libraries.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/940681-most-beautiful-college-libraries.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’m surprised Harvard didn’t get one of those top 10 spots.</p>

<p>And, quite frankly, those libraries are no match to what they have at Cambridge</p>

<p>[bookporn</a> #12: gonville & caius library, cambridge a historian’s craft](<a href=“http://idlethink.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2007/06/24/bookporn-12-gonville-caius-library-cambridge/]bookporn”>bookporn #12: gonville & caius library, cambridge | a historian's craft)</p>

<p>[Bing</a> Image Archive](<a href=“http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/#20100921-us]Bing”>http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/#20100921-us)</p>

<p>[Library</a> shelving](<a href=“http://www.ecospace.co.uk/index.php?id=908&L=]Library”>http://www.ecospace.co.uk/index.php?id=908&L=)</p>

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<p>Wow, Berkeley’s library (or at least the main reading room) looks a lot like UCLA’s.</p>

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<p>“Wow, Berkeley’s library (or at least the main reading room) looks a lot like UCLA’s.”</p>

<p>Let us see, Doe Memorial Libary was built in 1911. UCLA was founded in 1919. I would say that UCLA’s main library looks like Cal’s…not the other way around! ;)</p>

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<p>Dinand Library at Holy Cross is beautiful, especially the main reading room.</p>

<p><a href=“http://image34.webshots.com/34/0/22/21/246602221pMvygM_ph.jpg[/url]”>http://image34.webshots.com/34/0/22/21/246602221pMvygM_ph.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yale’s looks like it’s in a church! It looks like there’s an altar in the front.</p>

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<p>As a Boston College alumnus, I feel the college is honored to have Bapst chosen as the most beautiful library, yet I cannot readily see what puts it above the many others of notable beauty, unless it has something to do with the very pleasing way its Collegiate Gothic style was executed.</p>

<p>When I was at BC, Bapst was the main library, and it really was a pleasure to spend time there, whether to study, read or even just daydream. Perhaps my favorite room was what is now called The English Authors Room, with its large stone fireplace, Flemish tapestries, oak tables and stained glass windows depicting the seals of every Jesuit college.</p>

<p>The new, larger O’Neill (built in 1984?) taking over as the central library has allowed Bapst to open up one floor as a study space, that had previouslly been crammed with at least two levels of book stacks. Those books are now in O’Neill and that entire space is now so much more attractive as the architecture and style has been revealed. The whole building is now showcased to its best advantge. The main reading room (pictured in the article) is, of course, breathtaking.</p>

<p>If you are touring BC (or even if you are in the area) a visit to Bapst is a must!</p>

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<p>I agree on Bapst at BC. Beautiful library. I like that gothic look. Michigan has similarly beautiful architecture.</p>

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<p>The Legal Research Building at Michigan is surrounded by the law quad. Truly a beautiful complex.</p>

<p>[University</a> of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor: Photos](<a href=“U-M Web Hosting”>University of Michigan Law School/Quad, Ann Arbor: Photos)</p>

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<p>^ The Michigan law School Library as well as the law college building (no idea of the building name) are really quite gorgeous. If only all buildings in the university are like the law school, it would deserve the title as the most beautiful campus in America.</p>

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<p>Wow! Michigan Law is fortunate indeed!</p>

<p>What is it about the Gothic style that seems so fitting to academic environments? The ironic thing is that a later style, the Georgian, widely used during the Age of Reason, is less appealing, although handsome in its own right.</p>

<p>Seems to me (if architecture has any gender connection) that Georgian has a more masculine appeal, while Gothic is more feminine. Thoughts?</p>

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Is there anything original about the southern extension campus? ;)</p>

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<p>Wow, novi! Where is that in relation to the '60s modern airport terminal (aka Ross)?</p>