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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 in Massachusetts ...
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 ...
Driscoll, the safety officer at Thomas Crane Library, said more than one thousand pairs had been distributed over the past week. Staff intended to hand out the remaining supply at 2 p.m., just as ...
Thomas Crane Public Library. October 18, 1972 : 40 Washington St. 32: Noah Curtis House: Noah Curtis House: September 20, 1989 ...
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Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would ...
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 ...