Manhattan · NYC landmark
Old Grolier Club
29 East 32nd Street · Manhattan, New York City
A small former clubhouse preserves the book society’s first purpose-built exhibition and library home.
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NYFE Summary
The club first rented a few rooms for its work in printing, typography and book collecting. Its new house placed a lecture and exhibition hall on the first floor and a library on the third. Growing collections and programs later took the society to a larger home uptown.
Roman brick and stone frame two broad ground-floor arches. The central window above has five concentric rings of brick, with narrow windows at its sides. A row of small columns divides the top-floor windows across the front.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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