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Atlee B. Ayres was one of the most prominent Texas architects of the early twentieth century. In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ayres was involved in more than five hundred architectural projects, principally in San Antonio and South Texas, but also in Kansas, Oklahoma, and New York. His architectural successes include distinguished public buildings such as San Antonio's first skyscraper, the Smith Young Tower; private homes; businesses and churches; and five buildings on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. However, it was in the houses he designed that the influences of the refined eclecticism for which Ayres became known are most evident. In The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect, Robert James Coote focuses on Ayres's early-twentieth-century residential architecture and the sources from which he drew inspiration. During the three decades Coote examines, Ayres designed nearly two hundred homes in the fashionable San Antonio suburbs of Monte Vista, Olmos Park, and Terrell Hills -- homes that even now rank among the most charming in the area. Ayres's eclectic search for inspiration and guidance from buildings of many times and places, American and European, provides a window on the issue of style -- an issue that continues to interest those who design houses as well as those who experience them. Coote studies in detail twenty-five of Ayres's houses, not only as representatives of styles, but also as architectural compositions -- their plans, spaces, exteriors, materials, and structure. Coote has mined an extraordinary collection of drawings, specifications, office correspondence, and photographs to write about an important architect and theinfluences that made him both an exemplar of his times and an unusually fine practitioner of eclecticism.

Seattle Public Library's dazzling new Central Library, designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, prompted international notice even before the doors opened to this $159 million showplace. Yet Seattle Public Library's new prominence came after more than a century of tumult with many heroic struggles, from its itinerant existence in a pioneer boom town to its wired wonders in a world technology center. In "Place of Learning, Place of Dreams John Douglas Marshall recounts the fascinating stories behind the books and buildings of Seattle Public Library. The suspicious Fire that destroyed the library's home in the historic Yesler mansion and led to a surprise rescue by Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900s. The library's efforts through world wars, earthquakes, epidemic, and Depression. The Red Scares that claimed the jobs of two loyal library employees. The library's stocking of a graphic sex education book that sparked a controversy reaching all the way to the U.S. Senate. The city book club born at Seattle Public Library and copied across the country. The landmark "Libraries for All" program to remake the entire Seattle Public Library system with a $196 million bond issue, the largest in American library history. Marshall also profiles many intriguing people who enlivened Seattle Public Library and its contributions to the city. Librarian Charles Wesley Smith withstood a charge that he set the Yesler mansion fire. Sculptor George Tsutakawa's first fountain, for Seattle's Central Library, led to scores of renowned fountains around the globe. Yesler branch librarian James Welch rescued a dying library in a black neighborhood with the help of activist Millie Russell. And maverickarchitect Rem Koolhaas won his important Seattle commission after a startling turnabout by library board members during a visit to Europe. "Place of Learning, Place of Dreams tells the human story of a beloved Seattle institution with drama, honesty, and flair.

San Antonio Public Library - The San Antonio Public Library is a collection of a Central Library and 24 branch libraries (as of the fall of 2007) that serve the City of San Antonio.

San Francisco Public Library - The San Francisco Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Francisco. Its main library is located in San Francisco's Civic Center.

San Diego Public Library - The San Diego Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Diego.

Los Angeles Public Library Platt Branch - The Platt Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library was built in April of 1995, and is located on Victory Boulevard near Platt Avenue, for which it is named, in the west San Fernando Valley.

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