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Title	Architect's proposal booklet for Ohio University's Alden Library, 1965
Creator/Author	Dalton-Dalton Associates, Inc.
Collection	Ohio University Archives
Subcollection	Ohio University Buildings
Date original	19650101
Building	Vernon R. Alden Library
Replaced	Chubb Library
Building status	In use
Named for	Alden, Vernon R.
Description	Architect's proposal booklet for Ohio University's Alden Library. Spiral bound, 19 single-sided pages, 8.5x11". Includes details related to scope, siting, facilities, and mechanical issues. Also includes floor plans of all seven floors, site plan, and the south and east elevation plans. Prepared and submitted by Dalton-Dalton Associates, Architects-Engineers-Planners, a Cleveland, Ohio firm. Note the color rendering differs in look from the final plan. Construction began on the present university library, Alden Library, in 1966, and the building was occupied in 1969. Built at a cost of $5.3 million, the seven story edifice was designed to hold 800,000 volumes. This capacity was expanded to 1.2 million volumes with the completion of the east and west (4th-7th story) wings in 1972, bringing the total cost to $7.9 million. The second floor was renovated to create the Learning Commons 2004-2005, followed by a third floor Faculty Commons opening in 2007.
Subject-LCSH	Academic libraries College buildings
Original format-TGM2	Renderings
Original format-AAT	Architectural records
Location	Park Place College Green
Date built	1966 - 1969
Date opened	1969-02
Date dedicated	1966-05-23
Date renovated or remodeled	1972-06; 2004 - 2005
More information	http://www.ohiou.edu/athens/bldgs/alden.html http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/ouarch/RG57/
Type	Image/StillImage
Format [IMT]	PDF
Format [Extent] - file size	4776.812 KB
Identifier	alden_library_architects_booklet_19650101.pdf
Publisher	Ohio University Libraries. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections
Rights holder	Ohio University Archives
Rights information	Digitized images are made available by the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections for educational and personal research use only. Please cite the institution, collection, and if known, the creator. Contact carleton@ohio.edu for permission to publish and to purchase image files of higher resolution and quality for print publication.

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