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September 20, 1989. The Thomas Crane Public Library ( TCPL) is a city library in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is noted for its architecture. It was funded by the Crane family as a memorial to Thomas Crane, a wealthy stone contractor who got his start in the Quincy quarries. [3] The Thomas Crane Library has the second largest municipal collection ...
The Thomas Crane Public Library is regarded as the best of Richardson's libraries. [22] [23] [24] In his earlier libraries, Richardson's approach was to conceive the parts and then assemble them, while in the later ones such as Crane he thought in terms of the whole. [25]
The Old Colony Library Network [1] (OCLN) is a consortium of 28 member libraries [2] located on the South Shore of Massachusetts in the United States. OCLN membership includes 26 town and city libraries and two academic libraries. OCLN's cooperative approach enables member libraries to provide services that they would not be able to afford ...
Most prominent among those is the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, the pattern for the Richmond Library. Like the Crane Library, today designated a National Historic Landmark, the Richmond Library employs a similar face of two-toned sandstone in a random ashlar pattern with a battered foundation, with a steep gabled roof. The entrance ...
The moon blocks out 93% of the sun over Quincy Hundreds gathered on the Thomas Crane Library lawn in Quincy to watch the solar eclipse on Monday April 8, 2024. Charlotte Kishbaugh, 7, of Grand ...
They adapted Henry Hobson Richardson's Thomas Crane Public Library (1882) for this building. Unlike the Crane Library, this building is primarily brick with rough stone used for a short tower on the main facade and for the trim. It also features an asymmetrical grouping of intersecting gables. The building opened on Wednesday, February 22, 1905.
Thayer Public Library; Thomas Crane Public Library; W. Wellesley Hills Branch Library This page was last edited on 4 July 2021, at 18:34 (UTC). Text ...
C/W MARS (Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing) List of Carnegie libraries in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Massachusetts Library System. Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC) Metro Boston Library Network (MBLN) Minuteman Library Network (MLN) North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)