Hard to miss because of its massive size, the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library is made of Germantown stone and Indiana limestone and sports a central tower crowned with battlements and pinnacles that rise like a Gothic castle’s above the college’s central green.
But how much do folks know about Thompson and Vassar’s other libraries? Where was the first one located, for instance? And what’s the story behind the Cornaro stained-glass window?
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