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305 East 36th Street. N.Y. Public Library, St. Gabriel's Park.

1928

St. Gabriel's Park Branch, NYPL

305 East 36th Street. N.Y. Public Library, St. Gabriel's Park.

IMAGE DATE1928
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St. Gabriel's Park Branch, June 26, 1928.

Designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1908, this Carnegie library is no longer is extant. The St. Gabriel's Park Branch (which replaced a small, earlier, non-Carnegie library on 34th Street) was demolished for the construction of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in the 1930s. Ironically the earlier library building at 215 East 34th Street was also demolished for the tunnel.

The St. Gabriel's Park branch was torn down in the 1930s to make way for the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

The library building had a similar look to other McKim, Mead & White designed Carnegie libraries, though it also included one of the few open air reading room. These open air gardens were often on the roof with glass coverings. This branch was particular in that the open air section constituted a whole fourth floor, surrounded by classic loggia (columned portico) and covered by full peaked roof.

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