Manhattan · NYC landmark
Aguilar Library
174 East 110th Street · Manhattan, New York City
A former immigrant library has a metal-and-glass front framed like a theatre stage.
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NYFE Summary
The Aguilar Free Library Society supplied books to Jewish immigrants. It took its name from Grace Aguilar, a British novelist of Sephardic Jewish descent. After the society joined NYPL, its Yiddish books helped form the Jewish Division’s collection.
The enlarged facade places an iron-and-glass screen between two huge stone piers. The library’s architects also designed theatres, and they arranged this front like a stage opening. The different materials and narrow columns are visible from the street.
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