Images of Boston Public Library Extension, Boston, Massachusetts, 1973, by Johnson/Burgee. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

Boston Public Library Extension

Johnson/Burgee
1973

The front facade
This extension was added to the original Renaissance Revival style library built in 1888-95 by McKim, Mead and White. A quarry was reopened so that the granite of the original building could be used in the addition.

The juncture of the original library and the addition
The addition, in a classically derived modern idiom, maintains the same roof line and uses a version of string courses in an attempt at unifying the new addition with the older building.

The entrance
Instead of the narrow arches of the original, the addition uses three large bays with arched windows which echo the interior.

A view of the end and a detail of one bay

Click here to return to places index.

Click here to return to index of artists and architects.

Copyright © Mary Ann Sullivan. I have photographed (on site), scanned, and manipulated all the images on these pages. Please feel free to use them for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes.

Page created by Mary Ann Sullivan

	The front facade This extension was added to the original Renaissance Revival style library built in 1888-95 by McKim, Mead and White. A quarry was reopened so that the granite of the original building could be used in the addition.

	The juncture of the original library and the addition The addition, in a classically derived modern idiom, maintains the same roof line and uses a version of string courses in an attempt at unifying the new addition with the older building.

The entrance Instead of the narrow arches of the original, the addition uses three large bays with arched windows which echo the interior.
A view of the end and a detail of one bay