Fifth Avenue and West 42nd Street
Designed by architects John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings in the
elegant
Beaux-Arts style (1911), this imposing building, with its arcaded entryway
flanked by powerful lion sculptures, has more than 50 million items in its
collections, making it one of the world's five greatest research libraries.
National Historic Landmark 1966. N.Y.C. Landmark January 11, 1967.
