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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 after the Boston Public Library .
The Thomas Crane Public Library is regarded as the best of Richardson's libraries. [23] [24] [25] 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. [26]
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A large, diverse crowd gathered at Quincy's Thomas Crane Library to share the once-in-a-generation experience of viewing a near total solar eclipse.
Several of those had also been built in memory of a member of the family of a wealthy local philanthropist. Most prominent among those is the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, the pattern for the Richmond Library. [2]
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.
Peacefield, also called Peace field or Old House, is a historic home formerly owned by the Adams family of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was the home of United States Founding Father and U.S. president John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams, and of U.S. president John Quincy Adams and his First Lady, Louisa Adams. It is now part of the Adams National Historical Park .
Quincy Center is the commercial and government center of the city where City Hall, Thomas Crane Public Library, the United First Parish Church (Old Stone Church), Quincy Masonic Building, and numerous office buildings and residential streets can be found.