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 Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library | |
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| 43°42′18″N72°17′21″W / 43.70500°N 72.28917°W /43.70500; -72.28917 | |
| Location | 25 North Main Street,Hanover,New Hampshire, US |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1928 |
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| Affiliation | Dartmouth College |
| Website | www |
TheBaker-Berry Library is the mainlibrary atDartmouth College inHanover,New Hampshire. Thefresco,The Epic of American Civilization, was painted byJosé Clemente Orozco in the lower level of the library, and is aNational Historic Landmark.[1] Baker's tower, designed afterIndependence Hall inPhiladelphia, stands 200 feet above campus and is often used as an iconic representation of the college.[2][3][4][5]
The original, historic library building is theFisher Ames Baker Memorial Library; it opened in 1928 with a collection of 240,000 volumes. The building was designed byJens Fredrick Larson, modeled afterIndependence Hall inPhiladelphia, and funded by a gift toDartmouth College byGeorge Fisher Baker in memory of his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker, Dartmouth class of 1859. The facility was expanded in 1941 and 1957–1958 and received its one millionth volume in 1970.
In 1992, John Berry and the Baker family donated US $30 million for the construction of a new facility, theBerry Library designed by architectRobert Venturi, adjoining the Baker Library. The new complex, the Baker-Berry Library, opened in 2000 and was completed in 2002.[6] The Dartmouth College libraries presently hold over 2 million volumes in their collections.
the Baker Library spire (Baker being the signature Dartmouth building)
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