Above a fountain-shaped sculpture in this building, there is an inscription of the quote "Beauty, old yet ever new" fromWhittier's poem "The Shadow and the Light.
Above a fountain-shaped sculpture in this building, there is an inscription of the quote "Beauty, old yet ever new" fromWhittier's poem "The Shadow and the Light." Pulitzer-winning historian Edmund Morris co-signed a lawsuit against a proposedrenovation of this building that planned to carve out back rooms to create space for a new, four-story glass atrium withwindows stretching top-to-bottom. Raffaelle Menconi helped realize Thomas Hastings's design for the bronze bases of theflflagpoles at this building, which is in the middle of a controversy about Norman Foster's proposed renovation, that wouldmake it the largest indoor space in its home city. It features two statues nicknamed "Patience" and "Fortitude" that are popularlyknown as Lady Lenox and Lord Astor because this building was created by merging their two collections. Carrere and `Hastings won a competition to design this building, for which Edward Clark Potter sculpted two marble lions on oppositesides of its main staircase on Fiftfth Avenue. For 10 points, name this Beaux-Arts building containing the Rose Main ReadingRoom, the flflagship of Manhattan's library system.
Above a fountain-shaped sculpture in this building, there is an inscription of the quote "Beauty, old yet ever new" fromWhittier's poem "The Shadow and the Light.
New York Public Library Main Branch [or Stephen Schwarzman Building; prompt on "NYPL"]