The George Peabody Library in Baltimore was designed by Edmund G. Lind, working with Peabody provost Nathaniel H. Morison. George Peabody gave 300,000 dollars in 1857 for the Peabody Institute, and the Civil War delayed construction until 1866. The library opened to the public in 1878.
The article calls the interior neo-Greco. A latticed skylight of frosted glass crowns an atrium that rises 61 feet, surrounded by five tiers of black cast-iron balconies made by the Bartlett-Hayward Company. Gold-scalloped columns contain the book stacks. The collection holds about 300,000 volumes.
The library belonged to the Peabody Institute until 1967, then to the City of Baltimore, then to Johns Hopkins University in 1982. A 1 million dollar renovation ran from July 2002 to May 2004. It is a Baltimore City Landmark and an event venue. The collections are open to the public, and the article gives no hours.
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