Toledo Main Library
- Architect
- Hahn & Hayes
- Year
- 1940
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Toledo, OH
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The Toledo Main Library was built in 1940 in the Art Deco style, designed by the firm Hahn & Hayes. As the city's main library, it anchors a civic story in downtown Toledo, its facade carrying the geometric ornament typical of the era's public buildings.
the building
Art Deco civic facade. Completed in 1940, the building presents the kind of visible Art Deco ornament expected of a public library from that moment, when municipal architecture favored stylized, geometric decoration over historical revival styles.
the style
The library is identified as Art Deco architecture, a style that had become the standard idiom for American civic buildings by 1940, favoring bold geometric ornament over earlier revival styles.
More on Art Decothe architect
The building was designed by the firm Hahn & Hayes.
nearby
- Lucas County Courthouse and Jail
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- Lasalle, Koch and Company Department Store
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