{"id":516,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:36:44","slug":"additions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/additions\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Additions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d <a href=\"\/history\/present\/doors\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/present\/current\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/original-south-facade.jpg\" alt=\"Original South Facade\" width=\"365\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The south section of the new building had temporary facades in anticipation of adding on to the building. https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/562233<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/61south-dismantling.jpg\" alt=\"Dismantling\" width=\"366\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dismantling part of the south wall to add the first addition in 1961.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/proposed-additions.jpg\" alt=\"Proposed Additions\" width=\"333\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The architect&#8217;s proposed additions to the building.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/61-addition-complete.jpg\" alt=\"1961 addition completed\" width=\"334\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Completion of the 1961 addition.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Construction of the second addition began in summer 1965. This addition fully extended the first addition to the north. Total usable space in the library was now 200,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d previous | next Construction of the second addition began in summer 1965. This addition fully extended the first addition to the north. Total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":512,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516\/revisions\/1179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}