Queens Central Library
89-11 Merrick Boulevard | also 89-25 Merrick Boulevard | Jamaica | built 1965
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1966
York & Sawyer design a Central Library with every public service on one floor
The 275,000-square-foot Queens Central Library building was designed by the firm York & Sawyer in 1966. It was the first major branch of a city library to put all of its public services on a single floor, an example of a new trend toward functional library design.
“As the first major branch of an urban library to place all public services on one floor, its design was representative of a new building trend…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2011
The glass-walled Children's Library Discovery Center opens beside the Central Library
The city's Department of Design & Construction commissioned a two-story, 22,000-square-foot children's addition to the Central Library under its Design and Construction Excellence program. It was designed by 1100 Architect, with signage and graphics by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture & Design Partnership, and its glass facade is sized to the low-rise blocks around it. It won design awards from the Queens Library Foundation and the Queens Chamber of Commerce that year and a Municipal Art Society MASterworks award in 2012.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2011
Exploratorium specialists fill the children's library with hands-on discovery stations
Using a $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant, the Children's Library Discovery Center brought in specialists from San Francisco's Exploratorium to build hands-on stations for children aged 3 to 12, covering subjects such as weather, music and nanotechnology. Queens Library CEO Thomas Galante said that setting museum-style exhibits inside a reading space made it unique among American public libraries.
“With a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the center recruited specialists from the Exploratorium in San Francisco to design hands-on "discovery stations".”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Children's Library Discovery CenterWikipedia
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