| 1906 |
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 Julian Abele joins Horace Trumbauer's architecture firm |
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January 12: Free Library officials consider School of Industrial Art building at
Broad and Pine Streets as a site for the central library building |
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October 13: Mayor John Weaver signs an ordinance authorizing the opening of the
Fairmount Parkway west of Logan Square |
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 October 15: Free Library officials select a site for the central library on the
north side of the Fairmount Parkway between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Streets |
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November 30: Free Library officials select Horace Trumbauer to prepare preliminary
plans for the central library on the Fairmount Parkway between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Streets |
| 1907 |
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January: Horace Trumbauer completes the preliminary design for the central
library on the Fairmount Parkway between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Streets |
