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27-556: Peabody Library could refer to Peabody Institute Library , a library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Peabody Library (Thetford, Vermont) Peabody Institute Library (Peabody, Massachusetts) Peabody Township Library , a library in Peabody, Kansas Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

54-910: A decade he designed mansions, factories, libraries, courthouses, hotels, Masonic lodges, commercial buildings, textile mill housing, and churches in Georgia , North Carolina , Virginia , Washington, D.C. , and elsewhere. His finest building in these years was the Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta (1884). He also designed the Gwinnett County Courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia ; the Mary Willis Library in Washington, Georgia ; and

81-507: A part of London , England ; his father, Alexander Lind, was an engraver who had fought on the British side as a Loyalist at the Battle of Bunker Hill outside Charlestown, Massachusetts near Boston in 1775. When he was young, the family moved to Birmingham , England , where drawing and painting became his favorite amusements. After an attempt at studying law, he studied architecture at

108-541: A standard for academic libraries. When it opened, Peabody dedicated the first segment, the West Wing of the new Peabody Institute, to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their kindness and hospitality. The institute was designed to be a cultural center for the City of Baltimore, with plans for an art gallery, music school, a public lecture series, a series of cash awards with gold medals known as "Peabody Prizes" for

135-730: Is a library connected to the Johns Hopkins University , focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere historic cultural neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore , Maryland . The collections are available for use by

162-440: Is focused on the 19th century, in keeping with Peabody's desire for it to be "well furnished in every department of knowledge and of the most approved literature". The library's 300,000 volume collection is particularly strong in religion, British art, architecture, topography and history; American history, biography, and literature; Romance languages and literature; history of science; and geography, exploration and travel. Some of

189-533: The Bartlett-Hayward Company ) and gold-scalloped columns containing closely packed book stacks. Between July 2002 and May 2004, the now historic library underwent a $ 1 million renovation and refurbishment. The George Peabody Library operates as an event venue. Event fees support the library's collections, services, and programs. Edmund George Lind Lind was born in Islington , now

216-761: The Bolton Hill neighborhood of northwest Baltimore, a church at the southwest corner of Dolphin and Etting streets, and the monument to Capt. John Gleason, of the 5th Maryland Infantry , in Cathedral Cemetery. He is also thought to have designed the English Tudor, Gothic-style building at North Howard and West Centre Streets for the Baltimore City College , the first of two on the site in 1875. The City College (formerly Central High School of Baltimore), an all-male public high school,

243-629: The Milton Candler House in Decatur, Georgia ; as well as a combined market and city hall for Guayaquil , Ecuador . Following the severe economic depression of 1893, Lind retired to Baltimore where he continued to practice on a limited basis. He died in 1909. He completed several works in North Carolina. During his career, Lind was active in both national and professional roles. He served as assistant supervising architect for

270-420: The 1815-1829 Washington Monument on the west side bordering Washington Place, which is also North Charles Street was begun in 1858, completed in 1861, and dedicated in 1866 in Peabody's presence, containing Peabody Hall (now Friedberg Concert Hall), conservatory rooms, and a picture gallery. In 1875, its east wing was begun along intersecting Mount Vernon Place (which is also East Monument Street), and in 1878,

297-747: The London School of Design, then worked for several years in various architects' offices in London. In 1855 Lind emigrated to New York City where he found employment as chief draftsman and assisting Norris G. Starkweather , designer of the brownstone Gothic-style, fourth structure for the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, which was finally completed with the tallest spire in the city in 1875, (first three structures from colonial times in downtown area at northwest corner of East Fayette and North Streets (now Guilford Avenue), sold

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324-715: The United States during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant . He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1857, and a Fellow in 1870. Lind was a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the AIA in 1870 and he also served as president in 1871, and also from 1876 to 1882. He also served as vice president of the national AIA organization on two occasions. His interests extended beyond architecture. In 1894 he wrote an essay on

351-798: The city against the famous British attack during the War of 1812 , "gave $ 300,000 as a beginning sum for the Peabody Institute" in February 1857. The institute was originally planned to open in 1860, but border-state conflict in the region caused by the American Civil War delayed its establishing and construction until 1866. The first George Peabody Library librarian, John Morris, and the Library Committee, chaired by George Pendleton Kennedy, used this time to study and catalogue

378-479: The collection's highlights include first editions by Poe , Hawthorne , Melville , and H. L. Mencken , Diderot’s 28-volume Encyclopédie, early editions of Don Quixote , Maryland and Baltimore maps, natural history folios, a first edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species , and fore-edge books. The library interior is often regarded as one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Completed in 1878, it

405-502: The collections of the greatest libraries in the U.S. and Europe. Morris then created a list of 50,000 books, and actively pursued their retrieval regardless of difficulty or expense. This practice was a great success, and was continued by the next librarian, Nathaniel Holmes Morrison. As Morrison's assistant, the scientist Philip Reese Uhler would expand this practice to scientific texts by seeking out experts in several scientific fields for advice. This form of collection development has become

432-482: The first paid-membership and subscription Library Company of Baltimore at the northeast corner of Holliday and East Fayette Streets, until it burned along with the famous neighboring Holliday Street Theatre in a massive fire in 1873. Lind's first building was the first structure to be erected specifically for the use of the high school in its history. It collapsed in 1892, when the Howard Street Tunnel

459-471: The general public, in keeping with the Baltimorean merchant and philanthropist George Peabody 's goal to create a library "for the free use of all persons who desire to consult it". The George Peabody Library was funded by George Peabody (1795–1869). Peabody, having become a wealthy man in Baltimore through commerce during the 1810s and 1820s, following his brief service in the state militia defending

486-507: The relationship between music and color, and transposed "Yankee Doodle" , "The Star-Spangled Banner" , and a number of other popular songs from music into color. He also investigated the importance of the number seven in acoustics and architecture , based on the seven colors of the rainbow and the seven sounds of the diatonic scale . A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places , maintained by

513-628: The site after the Georgian/Federal-era twin-spired church from 1795, was razed to the Federal Government for a new U. S. Courthouse, built 1859-60); and then moved to more residential and up-scale, tomey, Victorian-era Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood, just north of central business district at West Madison Street and Park Avenue ). Lind moved to Baltimore to supervise its construction, but in 1856, left Starkweather's office to partner with William T. Murdoch, with whom he

540-501: The title Peabody Library . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peabody_Library&oldid=764451064 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Peabody Institute Library The George Peabody Library

567-470: The top graduates of the city's then-three public high schools, as well as a public, non-circulating reference library which was later moved to the second attached segment in the East Wing in 1876–1878. The current library structure in the East Wing was designed by famed local architect Edmund G. Lind and opened to the public in 1878. The library remained part of the Peabody Institute until 1967, when it

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594-546: Was associated with until about 1860. He married his partner's cousin, Margaret Murdoch. In the late 1850s, Lind & Murdoch were selected to design the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, on behalf of financier George Peabody , who although born and raised in Massachusetts , spent a great deal of business time in New York City and London , had special regard for the city of Baltimore. Its original wing facing

621-583: Was being dug and constructed beneath from Camden Street Station in the south to the new Mount Royal Station in the north for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad through the downtown business district. It was replaced by 1895 by a second structure for BCC, designed by the architect partnership Baldwin & Pennington , which is still there today (2013), although now renovated since 1980 for apartments and condos, known as "Chesapeake Commons". In 1882 Lind transferred his practice to Atlanta , Georgia , where for

648-461: Was designed by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind in collaboration with the first Peabody provost, Nathaniel H. Morison , that described it as a "cathedral of books". The visually stunning, monumental neo-Greco interior features an atrium that, over an alternating black and white slab marble floor, soars 61 feet high to a latticed skylight of frosted heavy glass, surrounded by five tiers of ornamental black cast-iron balconies (produced locally by

675-543: Was finished under Lind's supervision. Its most impressive feature is its large central reading room, rising to the full height of the building under a skylight, with six stories of alcoves with wrought-iron work giving room for 300,000 volumes, and a checker board floor of alternating black and white marble slabs. Other examples of Lind's Baltimore work include the Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church at Bolton Street and Lafayette Avenue in

702-483: Was founded on Courtland Street (now St. Paul Street/Place and Preston Gardens), near East Saratoga Street in 1839, is the third oldest public high school in America. It was formerly located since 1843 in the old "Assembly Rooms" (a social dancing hall and place for society ladies and gentlemen for dinners, soirees, receptions and events), originally constructed in 1797 by Robert Cary Long, Sr. and also contained space for

729-634: Was transferred to the City of Baltimore and became a department in the nearby Enoch Pratt Free Library . It was transferred to The Johns Hopkins University in 1982 and became part of the Eisenhower Library 's Special Collections department at the Homewood campus and part of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, as the Peabody Institute itself affiliated with Hopkins. The main collection reflects broad interests but

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