Boston
Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library from the garden lawn between it and
Trinity Church. Established in 1852, the first free city library
in United States. Moved to Copley Square in 1895. The present
building was designed by Charles F. McKim of a New York
architectural firm. The style is scholarly classicism in the
Renaissance Beaux Arts academic tradition. Exterior of granite,
with 13 arched windows, and titled roof. For architecture,
sculptures, murals, and artistic detail this was at the end of
the nineteenth century the most beautiful building in the United
States.
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