The George Peabody Library, affectionately called Baltimore’s Cathedral of Books, was designed to house more than 300,000 volumes. Completed in 1878 by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind, the library features a neo-Greco interior with a massive 61-foot-high atrium that culminates in a latticed skylight of frosted heavy glass. The atrium is surrounded by five tiers of ornamental black cast-iron balconies and gold-scalloped columns.
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