Central Library, Philadelphia, Horace Trumbauer, and Julian Abele blue plaque

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Central Library. Opened on June 2, 1927, the Central Library was designed in the Beaux Arts style by Horace Trumbauer & Julian Francis Abele. It was built to serve as the main building of the Free Library of Philadelphia, chartered in 1891.

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