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Patience and Fortitude: 1911
The New York Public Library (last seen here sans lions) around the time of its opening in 1911. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. View full size.
Amazing
The building is so clean and new that it looks like a really detailed architectural model. Nice to see the lions made it safely!
Missing Statues
In the previous picture there was a statue (one of four) being installed on the cornice next to the Astor dedication. In this completed version of the building, the statues are missing in action.
What gives? Did they crack on installation? Were there nudes upsetting to the morality of the day? Or were they simply "bad art" best lost?
[They're still there. The building's not quite finished in our photo. - Dave]
Awesome replaced by more awesome
The library sits on the site of the first distributing reservoir for NYC, with water originating from the Croton River upstate.
Built in 1842, the reservoir was awesome even compared to this gorgeous building. The walls were 5 stories tall, 25 feet thick, and there was a promenade up top, all around the perimeter. It held 20 million gallons of water.
It was shut down when the Croton River was dammed and alternative water aqueducts were completed from the Ashoken upstate, and was demolished in 1899 to make way for the library.
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