Newberry Library
60 West Walton
Architects: Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931) and Charles S.
Frost
(1856-1932),
who also designed the Chicago Opera House.
According to Chicago's Famous Buildings, 1964, the Newberry Library
housed one of the great research collections of the midwest. It
was
designed in the Romanesque style, with wide hallways to preserve quiet
in the reading rooms.
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