Branches
| Brooklyn Public Library-Central Building | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| The Central Library in August 2008 | |
|
|
|
| Location: | Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: | 40°40′20″N 73°58′7″W / 40.67222°N 73.96861°W / 40.67222; -73.96861Coordinates: 40°40′20″N 73°58′7″W / 40.67222°N 73.96861°W / 40.67222; -73.96861 |
| Area: | 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) |
| Built: | 1911 |
| Architect: | Almirall, Raymond F.; et.al. |
| Architectural style: | Modern Movement |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: |
01001446 |
| Added to NRHP: | January 11, 2002 |
Read more about this topic: Brooklyn Public Library
Famous quotes containing the word branches:
“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)