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  2. Boston Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts' Library for the Commonwealth [5] (formerly library of last recourse ), [6] meaning all adult residents of the state are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library receives ...

  3. Boston Public Library, McKim Building - Wikipedia

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    Designated NHL. February 24, 1986. Designated CP. August 14, 1973. The McKim Building is the main branch of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, described upon its 1895 opening as a "palace for the people", contains the library's research collection, exhibition rooms, and administrative offices.

  4. Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library, formerly called the Dudley Library, [1] is a 27,350-square-foot (2,541 m 2) library building located at 149 Dudley St, Boston, Massachusetts, in historic Nubian Square. The Roxbury Branch is the largest in the Boston Public Library (BPL) system, excluding the central library location. [2]

  5. Public library - Wikipedia

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    The first large public library supported by taxes in the United States was the Boston Public Library, which was established in 1848 but did not open its doors to the public until 1854. [65] The Redwood Library and Athenaeum was founded in 1747 by a group led by Abraham Redwood. [66]

  6. Public libraries in North America - Wikipedia

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    The first free public library supported by taxation in the world was the Peterborough, New Hampshire Town Library which was founded at town meeting on April 9, 1833. Many sources claim to have been the first, such as Boston's Public Library, which was the second, established in 1852. The Boston Public Library opened on March 20, 1854.

  7. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center - Wikipedia

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    The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special collections center in Boston, Massachusetts with research, educational, and exhibition programs relating to historical geography. It is the steward of the Boston Public Library ’s map collection, consisting of approximately a quarter million geographic ...

  8. Synagogue (John Singer Sargent) - Wikipedia

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    Year. 1919. Synagogue is an allegorical mural by John Singer Sargent in the Boston Public Library. [1] It is part of Sargent's larger Triumph of Religion mural cycle in the library's central branch at Copley Square. Synagogue was unveiled in 1919, and it sparked immediate controversy. [2] The cowering and feeble personification of the Synagogue ...

  9. Boston Public Library, Honan-Allston Branch - Wikipedia

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    The Honan-Allston branch of the Boston Public Library is located at 300 North Harvard Street in Lower Allston.The 57,000 square feet (5,300 m 2) building opened in 2001 at a cost of $6.5 million, replacing a former branch closed in 1981.

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