Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Photo: Carol M. Highsmith · Public domain

Year

1963

Architect

Gordon Bunshaft

Type

building

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Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed Yale's Beinecke as a windowless box of translucent stone, completed in 1963 to house Yale's most fragile manuscripts and printed books. Four monolithic granite piers carry the structu …

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