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Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library

Little Rock, AR

We created a facility, which quickly reveals itself to the user through open spaces, while at the same time, expresses itself as a warm haven.  The Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library developed a building simple in form but diverse in the spaces offered to the user.

A large barrel vault spans the reading room letting light in at both ends and creating a space that classically recognizes the importance of knowledge and learning in society.  The barrel vault terminates in a masonry fireplace inglenook to the west, offering a warm and intimate reading area.  Terminating the vault to the east is the semicircle meeting room, which will provide space for children’s story hours, film showings, art exhibits, lectures and demonstrations.

The ceiling flattens over the stacks located to either side of the vault and one can move throughout the stacks of carrels positioned at the mahogany windows, which light each aisle.  Over 55,000 volumes, almost half of them aimed at the youth population in the suburban neighborhood will be housed in the building.

Awards

Arkansas AIA Design Award

Arkansas Times Interior Design Award

American Library Association Journal Review of New Libraries of America

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Categories

  • Civic, Libraries

Project Contact

Reese Rowland, FAIA
Principal
Little Rock

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Little Rock

801 South Spring Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
(501) 378-0878
pswarchitects@polkstanleywilcox.com

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Fayetteville, AR 72701
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