Once described as a cathedral of books, the Peabody Stack Room features an atrium with a black-and-white marble floor and five tiers of ornamental cast-iron balconies that rise 61ft to a latticed skylight ceiling. The library was founded by its namesake philanthropist in 1857, and its 300,000-volume collection is strong on religion, British art, Romance languages and literature, as well as geography. (Norm Barker, Johns Hopkins University)
America’s most beautiful college libraries
Once described as a cathedral of books, the Peabody Stack Room features an atrium with a black-and-white marble floor and five tiers of ornamental cast-iron balconies that rise 61ft to a latticed skylight ceiling. The library was founded by its namesake philanthropist in 1857, and its 300,000-volume collection is strong on religion, British art, Romance languages and literature, as well as geography. (Norm Barker, Johns Hopkins University)
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