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The Saint Louis Central Library

1. Cass Gilbert who was also the architect behind the United States Supreme Court Building, Woolworth Building, Saint Louis Art Museum, designed this library after winning an architectural competition.

2. The first photo was taken in the Fine Arts Room. The ceiling there is a reproduction of La Badia in Florence, Italy.

3. The artist represented in the 5th photo (the ceiling) didn’t know what Dolphins looked like. The illustration within it that almost represents fish, was painted entirely on description alone. During that time period some people thought dolphins were serpentine, the reason for that being how they swam in pods. When they’d rise from the surface it looked like an elongated fish slithering through the water. (They also had no concept of swimming mammals, hence the scaly details at times).

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was uploaded just yesterday:

Dismantling Santa, at Manchester's Central Library.