1864 – Linen Hall Library, Belfast
Architect: Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon, Young & Mackenzie
Sited on Donegall Square facing the dominant City Hall,
1868 – Old Library, Queen’s University Belfast
Architect: W.H. Lynn, Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon
Gorgeous Victorian library in a decorative Victorian gothic complete with a flèche over a central crossing.
1868 – Salle Labrouste, Richelieu Library, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Architect: Henri Labrouste
For more than 250 years the national library was housed in a complex in this location.
1869 – Mercantile Library Building, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Architect: P.B. Wight
The architect Peter Bonnett Wight’s career “flourished in the 1860s and early 1870s in New York,
1869 – Wedgewood Memorial Institute, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Architect: Robert Edgar
From The Architect and Contract Reporter,
1870 – Free Library, Salford, Lancashire
Architect: Royle & Bennett
Front elevation, longitudinal &
1870 – Philiosophical Institution and Library, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Architect: Foster & Ponton
From The Builder March 5 1870: The building for those amalgamated institutions at the top of Park street close to several other important edifices is progressing towards completion and in our present number publish a view of it and the plan of ground floor.
1870 – Public Library, 629 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio
Architect: James W. McLaughlin
Opened in 1870 and in later years known as Old Main.
1873 – Free Library & Museum, Blackburn, Lancashire
Architect: Woodzell & Collcutt
Selected design after an architectural competition.
1873 – New Library, Grafton Street, London
Architect: T. Cragfield Clarke
New library for Dr.
