Out the Window

Park Street Church viewed from Suffolk University law library.

Kennedy Library

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Kennedy Library II

View of the JFK Library from the harbor side.

Kennedy Library

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on the tip of the Columbia Point Peninsula overlooking the entrance to Boston Harbor and the islands to the east of Dorchester Bay and is adjacent to the Harbor Campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston.

The Library was designed by I.M. Pei and consists of a triangular nine-story tower housing archival, educational and administrative functions, a two-story base containing exhibition space and two 230-seat theaters, and a 115-foot high memorial pavilion.

In 1991, the Kennedy Library added the 21,800 square foot Stephen E. Smith Center, also designed by I. M. Pei. Constructed in the same stark white precast concrete as the original building, the two-story addition contains spaces for lectures, conferences, and meetings as well as more archival storage.

Tomorrow we'll see the back of the building.

Wednesday Doorway

This week's doorway is simple and utilitarian, but the rest of the building is quite spectacular as one would expect from an I.M. Pei designed building. Tomorrow I will show a picture of the front of the building.

Wednesday Doorway

This beautiful doorway can be found at the Boston Athenaeum 10 1/2 Beacon Street.

This post is a repeat from August 29, 2007, but is too beautiful a doorway not to showcase a second time.

Boston Public Library

Main branch of the BPL in Copley Square.

Providence Athenaeum

Card catalog at the Providence Athenaeum.

10 1/2

This beautiful doorway can be found at the Boston Athenaeum 10 1/2 Beacon Street, about a block from the State House. The Athenaeum, one of the oldest libraries (1807) in the country overlooks the Granary Burying Ground, which must guarantee it to have one of the quietest reading rooms in the city:)

Buildings and Crayons

I saw this building peeking out just beyond the Boston Public Library on Boylston Street and thought it looked like a big green Crayola crayon.

JFK Library

Front entrance to the JFK Library in Dorchester.

Bastille Day, Le 14 juillet

In honor of Bastille Day (and my partial French heritage) I present a picture of the French Library and Cultural Center at 53 Marlborough Street. Visit the French Library's website here.

JFK Library

JFK Library

Iron Lanterns

These wrought iron lanterns are on the Dartmouth Street entrance of the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library. There is an exhibition on John Adams, second president of the US, being advertised on banners just below the lanterns.