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The library was named after Annie E. Chapman, first librarian of the Salt Lake City public library system. [2]It is an L-shaped building designed in Classical Revival architecture by architect Don Carlos Young, Jr., who also designed the layout of the University of Utah campus and a number of LDS buildings.
The Salt Lake City main library covers an area of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m 2) in a five-story tall, wedge-shaped building. [10] The structure includes 44,960 cubic yards (34,370 m 3 ) of concrete, and 176,368 square feet (16,385.1 m 2 ) of glass, including a five-story curved glass outer wall.
The new library opened in 1905 with librarian Joanna Sprague, for whom the Sprague branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library system, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, [1] is now named. The building would continue to serve as the main branch library until October 1964, when a new library building was constructed at 209 ...
Because of this law, the Free Public Library of Salt Lake City, the city's first government-run free public library, opened on February 14, 1898. Its temporary location was on the top floor of the Salt Lake City and County Building, and the collection consisted mainly of a stockpile of 11,910 books donated by the Pioneer Library Association. [3]
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Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
It was originally built as the George Thomas Library. In 1968 when the library moved and became the J. Willard Marriott Library the building became the home of the Utah Museum of Natural History. [13] In 2011 the "Utah Museum of Natural History" moved to a new building and changed its name to "Natural History Museum of Utah".