The George Peabody Library

I had to take a week off from these posts due to personal stuff, but I’m back this week with some photos from a recent trip to Baltimore. This is the inside of the George Peabody Library. The interior of this library is one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. It was completed in 1878 and was designed by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind to be a cathedral of books. Per Wikipedia:

The visually stunning, monumental neo-Greco interior features an atrium that, over an alternating black and white slab marble floor, soars 61 feet high to a latticed skylight of frosted heavy glass, surrounded by five tiers of ornamental black cast-iron balconies (produced locally by the Bartlett-Hayward Company) and gold-scalloped columns containing closely packed book stacks.

I’ve also included a song by classical pianist André Watts (who studied piano at the Peabody Institute).

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