Masonry Magazine July 1973 Page. 23
Loomis Library
Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates, Inc. also did the master plan for the Loomis-Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, which includes a 100,000-volume library. Designed by Kenneth DeMay (of SDDA), this library also won a top national library building award.
More than 100,000 interior and 50,000 exterior Glen-Gery bricks were used for the 46,000 square foot award-winning Katherine Brush Library at the Loomis-Chaffee School. Mason contractor Paquette Masonry, Inc., in conjunction with general contractor George A. Fuller, had as many as 25 BM&PIU Local 1-Connecticut masonry craftsmen on the job each day.
The Award Jury, in recognizing the $1,714,000 structure said, "There is great feeling in the interplay of interior spaces with the mezzanine sensitively related to the sloped roof plane (buttress type interior brick walls serve as room dividers). Here is a building that belongs in its environment."
Photography by Franklin Wing
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