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| Why libraries? Well.... |
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| We headed out to the refinished central public library for a quick walk-through after it reopened this year. They've been working it over for two years. |
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| Front Entryway |
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| Ceiling detail |
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| ceiling detail |
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| again, closer detail |
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| Central reading room with two pauperized miscreants |
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| Chandelier detail |
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| Nice cafe - too bad they haven't found a vendor yet. Hope they like orange. |
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| Nice use of lighting to make basement level tolerable - this was a trollish dungeon before. |
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| The most modest of all the new rooms |
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| The DREAM art is really just a curtain to split the room |
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| The children's reading room |
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| Neato touchscreen workgroup pods for business or pleasure |
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| The patron saint of Missouri letters, St. Mark |
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| STL hearts Eero Saarinen |
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| The modernist section - I don't know what it looked like before. |
