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36-530: Main Library may refer to the following libraries: Main Library (Columbus, Ohio) Main Library (Erie, Pennsylvania) Main Library (San Francisco) Main Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Main Library . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

72-450: A basement. The west facade is lively with arches, columns, friezes, and carved cherubs. A large frieze reads "Biblioteca Fons Eruditionis", or "the library, the fount of learning". A smaller frieze over the central entranceway reads "Open to all" in bold capital letters (Carnegie required that anyone use the libraries he funded). The facade also features a row of benches, with the inscription "my treasures are within" across them; this phrase

108-583: A biannual sale of about 18,000 books, graphic novels, CDs, and DVDs (materials from the library that are worn or not in demand) at the branch, which raises about $ 15,000 each occurrence. Columbus City Hall (Ohio) City Hall was designed in a Neoclassical style by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus. It replaced offices in the Central Market building as well as a former permanent city hall . The new city hall

144-400: A fourth section was added on the east side of City Hall in 1936 to enclose the courtyard and provide additional office space. The structure was further renovated in 1949. City Council chambers, located on the second floor, were fully restored in 1986, and feature Art Deco elements echoing those found throughout the building. In 1988, the building was included as a contributing property to

180-488: A new building on Capitol Square in 1872. In 1921, a fire destroyed that building, now the site of the Ohio Theatre . James John Thomas , mayor of Columbus from 1920 to 1931, laid the cornerstone for a new City Hall on October 29, 1926. The building was dedicated on April 18, 1928. Initially built in three sections surrounding a central courtyard at a cost of US$ 1.7 million (equivalent to $ 19,930,000 in 2019),

216-504: A portion of the city's homeless population, as the facility offers warmth, drinking fountains, bathrooms, computers, and homeless-specific resources. The Friends of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, operates the library store, on the first floor of the library's new wing. The store sells books, gifts, music, clothing, and other branded items. The organization also operates

252-788: The Columbus Civic Center Historic District , nominated to the National Register of Historic Places . The nomination was prepared in the late 1980s by the City of Columbus's Economic Development Division. The district was determined to be eligible for the National Register on September 14, 1988, due to its association with community planning, engineering, government, and transportation in the city, and for its Art Deco, Neoclassical, and Renaissance Revival architecture. Even though its suitability

288-562: The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) system is located in Downtown Columbus, Ohio , United States. The public library is the largest in the library system and holds approximately 300,000 volumes. It includes numerous rooms, including separate spaces for children, teens, an adult reading room, newspaper room, auditorium, gallery, gift shop, and a cafe. The third floor includes a computer lab and houses

324-592: The CML was looking to connect the library building to the nearby Topiary Park . The only obstacle between the two was a small parking lot, which was part of the long-vacant Ohio School for the Deaf property. The CML purchased the property in order to obtain rights to the parking lot and replace it with a patio and park space. It paid $ 2.16 million for the building and its 2.24 acres in February 2013, and resold everything except

360-642: The Carnegie building's atrium; and Life in Sellsville 1871–1900 and Life in the Blackberry Patch, 1900–1930 by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, located in the new Grand Atrium. Topiary Park is a public park adjacent to the library, constructed in the late 1980s and early 1990s and designed by James and Elaine Mason. The park's central feature is a topiary garden, designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat 's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on

396-599: The Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society. The library building was proposed as early as 1901 when the public used a reading room in Columbus's city hall. In 1903, Andrew Carnegie largely funded its construction, making it a Carnegie library . The library was designed by Albert Randolph Ross in the Beaux-Arts style, using white Vermont marble. The building opened in 1907. It

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432-583: The Grand Atrium, the children's section, an auditorium, meeting rooms, a gallery, a gift shop, and Carnegie's Cafe. The second floor features a reading room, newspaper room, teen room, a staff area, the fiction section, multimedia, and the Carnegie Gallery. The third floor houses the nonfiction and reference sections, local history and genealogy, a digital lab, and space for the Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society. An atrium links

468-505: The Island of La Grande Jatte . It is the only park based entirely on a painting. The library's 2015–16 renovation included seating and parkland constructed between the library and Topiary Park. One of the goals of the renovation was to better join the library to the park. The Main Library is open seven days per week. Services offered include wireless internet, public computers and tablets, and discovery boards (consoles that aid in navigating

504-477: The Thomas Ewing Miller house), the official residence of six Ohio governors, including future president Rutherford B. Hayes . The house was demolished to make way for the library. Construction lasted from 1903 to 1906 at a cost of $ 310,000; the city covered the remaining cost and agreed to pay at least $ 20,000 per year in maintenance and growth, a stipulation of Carnegie's gift. Carnegie's library

540-453: The city's increasing population. There were four additions and renovations: in the 1950s, 1961, 1990–1991, and 2015–2016. In 1953, the first expansion of the library opened, followed by a 15,000-square-foot annex in 1961. The Carnegie building was renovated in 1989, and the 1953 and 1961 additions were demolished. The 1990–1991 renovation cost $ 39 million, funded by a tax levy in the late 1980s. The renovation included an addition that tripled

576-548: The first floor of City Hall , opened on March 4, 1873, and contained 1,500 books. These included 1,200 from the Columbus Athenaeum (1853-1872), 358 from Columbus's high school library, and 33 from its horticultural society. In 1906, the reading room moved to a separate building across from the Ohio Statehouse . Columbus was initially passed over by Carnegie for funds to build a large main library, as it

612-422: The library and learning about it). Activities for children include children's book narrations, a reading practice area, a homework help center, a study center for teens, and a media lab. Historical and genealogical services include access to 70,000 books, records, and other materials, as well as a discovery board that highlights newly digitized materials and historic areas of Columbus. The library currently serves

648-420: The library building. Additionally, a concrete plaza was broken up on the building's west side, restoring the size of the library's lawn. The original building was designed by Albert Randolph Ross of New York and Wilbur T. Mills of Columbus. It was built in a Beaux-Arts style (sometimes referred to as Second Renaissance Revival -style ), using white Vermont marble on a gray granite base. It has two stories and

684-525: The library's space to reduce staff and shelf space and increase multimedia space; it reduced the Main Library's capacity from approximately 1 million volumes down to 300,000. The 1991 addition was constructed before the internet was popular, and before smartphones existed; thus the 1991 building was more-so built to house books. The renovation replaced the 1991 building's stone walls and heavily tinted windows with large glass curtain walls, giving views of

720-475: The library's space, from 87,000 square feet to 418,800 square feet. The renovation was finished on January 2, 1991, and dedicated on April 30, 1991, by First Lady Barbara Bush and Ohio governor George Voinovich . In 2007, the centennial of the Main Library, the State Library of Ohio donated a 25,000-volume collection of genealogical history to the library, now located on the third floor. In 2013,

756-404: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Library&oldid=932975672 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Main Library (Columbus, Ohio) The Main Library of

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792-403: The nearby Topiary Park, Cristo Rey Columbus High School, and Grant Medical Center . Doorways were enlarged, and the library's cafe and gift shop were relocated to the 1991 building. Most shelves were reduced to below average adult height, allowing a less obstructed view of the interior. Additionally, park space replaced a parking lot at the building's east side, bringing Topiary Park directly up to

828-402: The old building and the new. The main reading room, created in the 2015–2016 renovation, can seat 800 people. In the center of the west lawn is Peter Pan , a fountain and sculpture donated to the library, created in 1927 and dedicated May 18, 1928. The building features art by central Ohio artists throughout. These include three commissioned works: Vanitas by Todd Salughter, located in

864-566: The parking lot space for $ 1 million to the private Cristo Rey Columbus High School in March 2013. This project, inspired by the main branch of the New York Public Library and its adjoining Bryant Park , in turn inspired the CML's 2015–16 renovation of its Main Library. The latest renovation had its groundbreaking on February 24, 2015. The branch closed for the project two months later, on April 13, 2015. The 1991 addition

900-403: The west facade is advanced about two feet from its two wings, and features Ionic columns and pilasters, as well as a larger attic, giving the structure more prominence. The Carnegie building has 31,200 square feet. The 1991 building was designed with a marble exterior and a round-arched entrance on the north side of the west facade, echoing the design of the Carnegie building. When the building

936-494: Was against his preference for smaller branches accessible to local working class residents. Library director John Pugh traveled to New York City and secured Carnegie's $ 150,000 donation after bonding over their similar heritage; Carnegie was Scottish and Pugh was Welsh. The donation was later increased to $ 200,000 in 1903. The site at 96 S. Grant Avenue was the location of the Judge Noah Swayne house (also known as

972-424: Was built from 1926 to 1928, during a period of extensive construction building the city's riverfront civic center. An additional wing was added to City Hall in 1936. Renovations took place in 1949 and 1986, and the building was determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places as part of a historic district in 1988. Columbus's first city hall was at the Central Market building, but it moved to

1008-421: Was confirmed, the district was never listed. The south patio of City Hall facing Broad Street was named the M. D. Portman Plaza in 1996 after a long-serving City Council member. From 1955 to 2020, the plaza was home to a 20 foot (6.1 m) tall bronze statue of Christopher Columbus by Italian sculptor Edoardo Alfieri . The statue was a gift to the city of Columbus from the citizens of Genoa, Italy . It

1044-430: Was constructed with an axial plan; the site posed no difficulties, allowing for a simple symmetrical design. The Architectural Review praised its simple plan and elegant facades, writing "we can recollect no Renaissance building of its size more charming". Its original layout included a central hall, with a main reading room and general reference room on either side, with a stack-room at the back. The central structure of

1080-489: Was dedicated on April 4, 1907; the event included an address by the governor, as well as a message from Carnegie read by Ohio Library Association president Burton E. Stevenson. In 1921, when the City Hall building burned, the library housed the mayor and city officials until the construction of the new city hall . Since it initially opened, the library has undergone several major renovations and expansions to accommodate

1116-412: Was first expanded in 1953 and 1961, followed by a 1991 addition and the demolition of the two prior structures; the process tripled the building's size. In 2015 and 2016, another renovation took place to increase reader space, add to its west lawn, join the building to Topiary Park at its east, and clad most of the 1991 building in glass. The first public library in Columbus, the downtown reading room on

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1152-538: Was removed during the George Floyd protests in the city and will be placed in a less controversial location. The five-story building, constructed of Indiana limestone, was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus in the Neoclassical style. Allied Architects also designed the adjacent Central Police Station building at West Gay Street and Marconi Boulevard, which opened on March 26, 1930,

1188-657: Was renovated in 2015–2016, most of the marble was replaced with glass curtain walls, and the round-arched entrance was replaced. The 1991 construction and 2015 renovations won the Columbus Landmarks Foundation 's James B. Recchie Design Award; the latter project beat out the National Veterans Memorial and Museum and the Michael B. Coleman Government Center in 2019. The extended library has three floors. The first floor contains

1224-631: Was suggested to be used by Carnegie, in his letter awarding his funds. Friezes atop windows on the west facade mention the classical poets Virgil and Homer ; other inscriptions credit Carnegie for funding the library and another has the Latin word "anno" followed by Roman numerals "MCMIV", meaning "the year 1904", when the cornerstone was laid. The interior of the Carnegie building has coffered ceilings and barrel vaults in its main corridors, along with dark green columns and pilasters, made with an imitation marble technique known as scagliola . The building

1260-641: Was the focus of the renovation, replacing the windowless east facade with two stories of windows overlooking Topiary Park. 80 percent of the branch's collection was moved to storage, while the rest was relocated to other branches. The renovations were scheduled to be complete by summer 2016, in time for the library to host the World Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions . The 2015 renovation did not increase square footage, though it redesigned

1296-518: Was vacated in 1991 with the opening of a new police headquarters building, and was renovated in 2012 as 77 North Front Street to allow the consolidation of various city government offices. City Hall was originally also the venue for the city's Municipal Court, and its proximity to the Police Station building provided for efficient movement of prisoners between the two buildings. The former third-floor municipal courtroom in City Hall now serves as

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