The Architect · Nora · San Francisco
Mechanics' Institute Library
I joined the Mechanics' Institute because of the reading room. I stay for the chess room, which is a separate small room with its own atmospheric quality.
Founded 1854, in its current building since 1910. The fourth-floor reading room is the best interior reading space in San Francisco and almost nobody outside the membership knows it.
— Nora, The Architect
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