The Aubrey Watzek Library is a library on the
Lewis & Clark College
Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany, Oregon, the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis & Cl ...
campus, in
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
.
History
The building was designed by
Paul Thiry and completed in 1967. The library doubled in size during renovations completed in the mid-1990s by Hoffman Construction.
In 2016, a copy of the 1599
Geneva Bible
The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James Version by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespear ...
was rediscovered in the library's basement.
Special collections
Since 2001, the library has housed the literature of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select gro ...
collection in a special collections facility. The
William Stafford Archive was established in the special collections in 2008.
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1967 establishments in Oregon
Lewis & Clark College buildings
Libraries in Portland, Oregon
Library buildings completed in 1967
University and college academic libraries in the United States