{"id":521,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-5\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:35:16","slug":"facades","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/facades\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d <a href=\"\/history\/present\/moving\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/present\/doors\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dedication of the new building took place over two days in January 1952.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/15501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/northdoors-1954.jpg\" alt=\"North Doors 1954\" width=\"269\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The north entrance facing Washington Street. (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/374968<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/northside1953.jpg\" alt=\"North side\" width=\"406\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northeast view of the Main Library, the University of Iowa, 1952 (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/727107<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/stacks-study1951.jpg\" alt=\"Stacks\" width=\"392\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New book stacks and study space. (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/451447)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/foyer1954.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibit Space\" width=\"356\" height=\"360\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobby housed five glass exhibit cases in which displays where changed\u00a0approximately once a month during the school year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d previous | next Dedication of the new building took place over two days in January 1952. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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\/521"}],"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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions\/1177"}],"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=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}