Amazing collection of material on Washington,DC from the late 18th century to the present including the reference library, photograph collections and the DC community archives. Washingtoniana Room.
Saturday, Burgundy Crescent Volunteers help with Books Plus, the nonprofit library store. Volunteers will get special pricing and dibs on books they would like to purchase.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, built in 1969-72, is the city's only work by one of the 20th century's important architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
In 1972, the Central Library at Mt. Vernon Square was replaced... by the large, modern Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 9th and G streets N.W. The new main library was designed by Mies van der Rohe and is eight times the size of the original Carnegie Library.(もっと詳しく)