Widener Memorial Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Cambridge / Cambridge, Massachusetts / Harvard Yard, 31
 library, interesting place, 1915_construction, Georgian (architecture)
Most prominent of the Harvard libraries, designed c. 1915 in the Georgian Revival style by Horace Trumbauer with funds provided by Eleanor Elkins Widener. It is named after Harry Elkins Widener, who was a Harvard alumnus of the class of 1907 who died in the R.M.S. Titanic disaster in 1912. Trumbauer's associate architect, Julian F. Abele, was largely credited with the design. Its stacks were fabricated by the Snead & Co. Iron Works company with interiors by White, Allom & Co.

Murals were later added by John Singer Sargent to honor those who died in WWI.

hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/
harvardplanning.emuseum.com/sites/288/widener-library
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059445117&view=...
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Coordinates:   42°22'24"N   71°6'59"W
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