

The counter was screened at each end with copper grill panels, connected beneath a metal arch studded with electric globe lights. The southern end of the room, facing the lobby and arched entranceway, held a 26-foot-long issuing counter. The ceiling was described as a "work of art" with rich paneling. The space, originally the church's sanctuary, had a drop ceiling supported by steel beams. The hall was intricately decorated, with globe lights brightly lighting the room and shimmering against the blue tints and gold in the ceiling and walls. The rear half of the building held the two-story Library Hall, an ornate room measuring 52 by 59 + 5 / 6 feet (15.8 m × 18.2 m). The front half of the second floor held board rooms – committee room, a lavatory, visitors' lobby, principals' assembly room, offices for the superintendents of music, drawing, and penmanship, and the Board Hall, where the Board of Education met regularly. It also held the library's reference room, holding numerous 28-inch-deep rolling bookcases, along with tables and chairs at the center. The front of the first floor held a telephone room, and lavatory in addition to well-furnished offices – for the Clerk of the Board (including a fireproof vault), for the librarian, for the Superintendent of Instruction (a public office and a private office), and for the Truant Officer. The basement held a 400-seat teachers' assembly hall, the office of the Superintendent of Buildings, storage rooms, and an unpacking room for the library. The building interior included two stories and a basement. It featured a mosaic of blue freestone and Lake Superior portage stone around its main entrance arch and front gable. The building's front was made of buff Amherst stone and buff pressed brick. : 569–570 The library was originally designed to house 40,000 volumes. The building was reported in 1892 to be centrally located, accessible from every streetcar line, and architecturally handsome. Masks are required.The school library was located on a lot 95 by 187 feet (29 m × 57 m) on the north side of Town Street in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, between Pearl Alley and Third Street. The library will be closed on Sundays at least through Jan. 9.
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The free Huntington Holiday Train will be running in the lobby of the Main Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 96 S. The kids will be going crazy watching the trains go around. Last year, like so many things, the installation was cancelled. “He used to sit in his wheelchair and look at all the corners, make sure they were right.”īecause he works Saturdays and Sundays, Kolokoh has seen the train setups ever since he started working at the library five years ago. “That's how her dad used to do,” said Hakim Kolokoh, one of the library's security guards. Winters, 50, does planning and concept sketches for the projects, and this summer created a gigantic gingerbread house for the Biltmore. They both went on to school and other jobs, but remained friends, and when Busse Dolan needed a creative director, she thought of Winters. “I was working as a model builder in my later years in high school, and Stephanie Winters had just graduated from college and was working there as a sculptor,” Busse Dolan said. Once Busse Dolan took the reins of the company, she called on someone who had worked closely with her father in the early years. His expansive Garden Railway is on exhibit at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens until January 2022. Paul Busse started Applied Imagination 30 years ago with an exhibit at the Ohio State Fair and then one at AmeriFlora '92 in Franklin Park. “I've just been by his side my whole life. I was always hanging on his side as a little girl, and going to every installation and train club meeting I could,” she said. As he puts it, we can't clone him, but I'm the closest thing to that. “I took it over because he (Paul Busse, 72) has late-stage Parkinson's, and could no longer be involved with the company. Holiday concerts: 14 holiday concerts around Columbus that will have you rockin' around the Christmas tree Supervising the improvisation, and constantly adjusting the results, was company president and CEO Laura Busse Dolan, 40, who took over the leadership of the company from her father, Paul Busse, in 2017. They spend the majority of the year creating intricate, labor-intensive houses out of plant materials for displays around the East Coast and the Midwest, including massive ones at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.Įvery October, they switch from precise, detailed work to traversing the states for set-ups that owe as much to improvisation as to prior planning.
