Baker Memorial Library
The Baker-Berry Library is the main library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fresco, The Epic of American Civilization, was painted by José Clemente Orozco in the lower level of the library, and is a National Historic Landmark.- Type: Library
- Description: library complex at Dartmouth College
- Also known as: “Baker Library”, “Baker-Berry”, and “Baker-Berry Library”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rauner Special Collections Library and The Epic of American Civilization.
Rauner Special Collections Library
Library
The Rauner Special Collections Library, housed in Webster Hall, is the primary special collections and archival library of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Rauner Special Collections Library is situated 350 feet southeast of Baker Memorial Library.
The Epic of American Civilization
Work of art
Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Epic of American Civilization is a mural by the social realist painter José Clemente Orozco. It is located in the basement reading room of the Baker Memorial Library on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
The Green
Park
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The Green is a grass-covered field and common space at the center of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The Green is situated 660 feet south of Baker Memorial Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hanover and Norwich.
Hanover
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Hanover is a college town in west central New Hampshire across the Connecticut River from Norwich, Vermont. It is home to Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, whose historic campus dominates the center of the town.
Norwich
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Norwich is a city of 3,600 people in eastern Vermont across the Connecticut River from Hanover, New Hampshire. It is commuter town for nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River, and is home to some of the state of Vermont's wealthiest residents.
Norwich Village Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Norwich Village Historic District encompasses the compact village center of Norwich, Vermont. The village was developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century, benefiting in importance from the 1820 founding of what is now Norwich University.
Baker Memorial Library
- Category: education
- Location: Town of Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Baker Memorial Library” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مكتبة بيكر بيري”
- Russian: “Библиотека Бейкера-Берри”
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