Pictured here is a window of the former Baxter Public Library. This beautiful brick building is 122 years old and now continues in another life housing an ad agency and a marketing firm as main tenants. Life goes on. The new library is a modern, glass-facade structure sitting at the base of Monument Square. As I've blogged before, a lot of my high school evenings were spent here after 'papers' working to complete seemingly, endless American History papers. I struggled with the writing but loved the sights, sounds, smells and the characters that inhabited the rooms.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Red Vase
Pictured here is a window of the former Baxter Public Library. This beautiful brick building is 122 years old and now continues in another life housing an ad agency and a marketing firm as main tenants. Life goes on. The new library is a modern, glass-facade structure sitting at the base of Monument Square. As I've blogged before, a lot of my high school evenings were spent here after 'papers' working to complete seemingly, endless American History papers. I struggled with the writing but loved the sights, sounds, smells and the characters that inhabited the rooms.
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I went to Versailles public library yesterday. I love the smell of these places. This is such a pretty winter scene!
ReplyDeleteI love public libraries. The quiet, the smell of books, and the whispering.
ReplyDeleteLove this shot and am partial to libraries in old buildings with character like this one.
ReplyDeleteThe arched window with the red bloom in a vase is a lovely photo.
ReplyDeleteGot my words turned around...the red vase ...
ReplyDeleteYour memories of your old library days reminded me of mine in Greenville, Ohio and a library Andrew Carnegie built there. It was and still is a massive building but one room was devoted to reading newspapers. There was five or six round tables with one or two chairs. Men, more than women, went to a rack containing newspapers draped on a long stick that you carried over to a table and laid the stick on the table and opened the newspaper to read it. The library provided ashtrays and the old men sat there smoking big cigars while reading the newspapers.
ReplyDeleteCigars and newspapers, Abe? I could dig that... shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
ReplyDeleteThose old libraries were like monuments---such great architecture. the new one---------?
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I love the look of this window and the two tone brick. Beautiful photo.
ReplyDeleteIt's looks very inviting on a cold winter's day.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to reminisce about the places that bring back such memories. I love libraries, especially the older ones with character.
ReplyDeleteI love the way that window is framed. When I was going to high school, I also visited the city library in a grand stone building with a huge curved staircase. I loved going there. It felt so grown-up!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fortress with those big, heavy bricks! Great architectural details! Are you going to show us the NEW library tomorrow or have you already?
ReplyDeleteLovely window and beautiful detail work around it. The atmosphere of those old libraries can't be replicated in the new ones.
ReplyDeleteA nice detail!
ReplyDeleteI'll bet the new library doesn't have the charisma - the smells, sounds, etc., of the old one. Looks like a lovely old brick building - they just don't make 'em like that anymore!
ReplyDeleteAh, memories! I'm glad they didn't demolish the beautiful stonework.
ReplyDeleteI understand the memories. My mother worked at the public library in my hometown, right down the street from where we lived, and I nearly lived there. I'm glad this building has been saved. We need more adaptive reuse of the great old buildings, and fewer bulldozers.
ReplyDeleteI love the arch over the window.
ReplyDeleteThe vase certainly spreads a bit of cheer. Decades ago, someone opened a bar across the street from St. Louis University called The Library, so if your parents called...
ReplyDeleteThis is sooooo pretty!
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