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The Billings Memorial Library is located on the campus of the
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in
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. Built in 1883, it was designed by American architect
Henry Hobson Richardson Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one ...
to resemble the Winn Library in
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, United States.


History

The library was given to the
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by
Frederick H. Billings Frederick H. Billings (September 27, 1823 – September 30, 1890) was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He is best known for his legal work on land claims during the early years of California's statehood and his presidency of the ...
, of
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. It has been a central part of campus life since opening in 1885, and despite the University's growth over the intervening century, the fact that it has remained so close to its original appearance is a testament to the strength and power of its architecture. A new library, the Guy W. Bailey Library (now known as the Howe Library), was built for the University of Vermont in 1961 due to lack of space at Billings Library. The Billings Library was then converted to a student center in 1963. After the building was determined to have been outgrown for student center purposes, the Dudley H. Davis Center was built and completed in 2007 to be the university's new student center. Thanks to an $11.4 million renovation completed in the summer of 2018, UVM's most architecturally important building once again houses academic departments, including Special Collections, the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies, the Humanities Center, and the Center for Research on Vermont.


Gallery

File:UVM Billings Library Main Entrance.jpg, Main Entrance File:Billings Library UVM 5.JPG, Modern Exterior c. 2015 File:UVM_BillingsLibrary_20150706.jpg, Exterior c. 2015 File:Billings Library ca1895 Univ of Vermont 2.jpg, Interior of The Apse, c. 1895 File:Billings Library ca1895 Univ of Vermont.jpg, Book Room, c. 1895 File:BillingsLibrary.jpg, Exterior, 2006


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Frederick H. Billings Frederick H. Billings (September 27, 1823 – September 30, 1890) was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He is best known for his legal work on land claims during the early years of California's statehood and his presidency of the ...
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University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...
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* Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Vermont Henry Hobson Richardson buildings Buildings at the University of Vermont Library buildings completed in 1883 Libraries in Vermont 1883 establishments in Vermont {{Vermont-struct-stub