Boston Public Library

the first publicly supported municipal library in the country, built beginning in 1887. This white stone Renaissance Revival building dominates one entire side of Copley Square, right across from Trinity Church, which was erected in the 1870s by Henry Hobson Richardson. The Morgan Library, built in New York City in 1906 to house the collection of the wealthy industrialist J. P. Morgan, was also constructed in the Renaissance Revival style. (Palmer, 2008)