Founders Library
- Year
- 1939
- City
- Washington, DC
Founders Library sits on Howard University's main quad, built on the site of the university's original main building. Designed by architect Albert Irvin Cassell, its cornerstone was laid in 1937 during the presidency of Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and it opened for service on January 3, 1939, named for the 17 men who founded Howard University.
the building
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. The library holds over 1 million volumes along with the Channing Pollock Theater Collection and is home to the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, making it a symbolic and functional center of the university and of Black scholarship in Washington.
significance
Founders Library has been designated a National Treasure and stands as the second library built for Howard University, replacing the school's original main building on the same site.
nearby
- Normal School for Colored Girls
- Banneker Recreation Center
- Fire Department Headquarters-Fire Alarm Headquarters
- First African New Church (Church of the New Jerusalem)
- Gage, Nathaniel Parker, School
- James Ormond Wilson Normal School