2009 oct 30

vine street, between 19 th and 20 th streets

Modeld after Ange Jacques Gabriel's twin palaces from the 1760s 1770s at the place de la  concorde in Paris. Trumbauer and the man who was his chief designer at this time, Julian Francis Abele, were both Francophiles and products of the training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, which was appropriate, given that the Parkway had been laid out by the Frenchmen Cret and Greber along Beaux Arts lines.

Before this building was constructed, the Free library, which was founded in 1894, was housed in City Hall