Part of Boston skyline from Cambridge.
“Yet Boston has never lost her universal supremacy for being independent in character, original in enterprise, unwilling to follow whenever she is reasonably equipped to lead. If she has surrendered any of her intellectual heritage, she is still too occupied in serving the humanities and human beings to pause for an audit.”
—David McCord, poet and education fundraiser (1897-1997)
The main Boston Public Library building, on Copley Square. Designed by Charles McKim, it was opened in 1895.
— Photo by Daniel Schwen
Reading Room in 1871 at the library’s first building, on Boylston Street, its location between 1858 and 1895.
