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The first public library
1848
Copley Square, Boston
Andrew Watson from Silver Spring, MD, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The first large free municipal library in America, on the then-radical principle that a city should lend books to anybody. McKim's 1895 building carries the motto Free to All over the door, with murals by Sargent upstairs and a courtyard copied from a Roman palazzo.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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