The Historian · Eleanor · New York
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The democratic counterpart to Morgan's private library: this 1911 Carrère & Hastings palace put the world's books within reach of anyone. Sit in the restored Rose Main Reading Room under the painted-sky ceiling, and remember it holds the city's archives — Whitman's papers, the Declaration's drafts, the maps that show how the streets came to be.
The 1911 marble flagship — lions out front, the Rose Reading Room within, and the city's memory inside.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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