Billings Memorial Library [SEP] architect
Billings Memorial Library
Built in 1883 on the campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington by American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the Billings Library was designed to resemble the Winn Library in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. A new library, the Guy W. Bailey Library (now known as the Howe Library), was built for the University of Vermont in 1961 due to lack of space at Billings Library. The Billings Library was then converted to a student center in 1963. After the building was determined to have been outgrown
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History H. H. Richardson.
The company formed a close relationship with architect H. H. Richardson. Boston Furniture Company–Davenport & Co. likely executed the furniture for his Winn Memorial Library (1879) in Woburn, Massachusetts. Davenport & Co. executed the furniture and interiors for his Thomas Crane Public Library (1881) in Quincy, Massachusetts; his Billings Library (1883) in Burlington, Vermont; and his Converse Memorial Library (1885) in Malden, Massachusetts.
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