I batted 100 % with those Goucher ladies in the late 50's.

I asked three of them out and all three of them said thanks but no thanks.

The slat bench, coffee table is a classic piece and pretty collectible to aficionados of the period.

The Athenaeum was awarded Library Journal's top award for New Landmark Libraries in 2012.

Perfect for maintaining the level of quiet needed in a library.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of these furnishings were still in use thirty or forty years later, albeit with less floor space in between the shelves. And the surface-mount fluorescent fixtures with the egg-crate baffles remind me of many an exam, when the loud sixty-hertz buzz was most distracting. Modern fluorescent ballasts operate at frequencies beyond the range of human hearing, a development most welcome.