Archive for the ‘Libraries’ Category

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A Majestic Gold-Gilded Eagle Perches Above the Elegant Clock Over the Front Doors Inside the Jacob Edwards Library in Southbridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on April 25, 2016)


A Porcelain Bust of 19th Century British Author Charles Dickens Found at the Westborough Public Library in Westborough, Massachusetts

Owl Worcester Public Library
A Bronze Owl (Symbol of Knowledge and Wisdom) on Display Next to a Couple of Volumes From the “Anne of Green Gables” Book Series in a Glass Case at the Main Branch of the Worcester Public Library on Salem Street (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on April 3, 2018)


One of the Many Stone Faces to Be Found on the Facade of the Original Cambridge Public Library on Broadway in Cambridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on April 14, 2018)

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An Interesting Clay Sculpture of the Head of a Man With Apparently Scaly Skin Impaled on a Rusty Spike Sticking up Through a Weathered Slab of Wood Seen on Display Inside the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library on the Campus of Assumption College in Worcester, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on October 13, 2019)

Marble Bust Shrewsbury Library
The Marble Bust of an Elegant Lady Watches Over Patrons From the Mantelpiece in the Reading Room of the Shrewsbury Public Library in Shrewsbury, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on February 14, 2015)

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A Bronze Statue of a Small Boy Reading From a Stack of Books Seen in the Snow-Covered Courtyard of the Licia & Mason Beekley Community Library in New Hartford, CT (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on February 23, 2019)

Bearded Face Cambridge Public Library
A Mysterious Hooded and Bearded Face Peers out From the Original Stone Edifice of the Main Branch of the Cambridge Public Library on Broadway in Cambridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on May 29, 2017)

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A Small Buddha Statue Seen Sitting on the Granite Ledge on the Front of the Former Carnegie Public Library (Now a Private Residence) on Jewett Street in Rockport, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on September 5, 2015)

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Just One of a Gallery of Grotesque Faces That Adorn the Original Stone Facade of the Main Branch of the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on March 16, 2018)