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Creation Date
6-6-2007
Description
Gettysburg College Musselman Library 5. Designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen (b. 1929) of Washington D.C., Musselman Library was completed in 1981 at a cost of more than $4,500,000.Its name honors the Musselman Foundation, which provided the major gift for its construction.
Musselman Library is a distinctive piece of contemporary architecture, which Jacobsen termed abstract Romanesque. Though designed to stand near the Romanesque revival Glatfelter Hall as a companion piece, it was built at a site where its relationship to the older building is less apparent. Indeed, to accommodate the change in the site, the building had to become a mirror image of its original design. In massing and color it resembles Glatfelter Hall, though it is clearly a structure of the late 20th century with its massive sculptural shapes planted firmly on the ground.
Latitude, Longitude
39.8363889, -77.2338889
Recommended Citation
George Lansing Taylor, Jr. "Gettysburg College Musselman Library 5." (2007). Image Collection. University of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections and Archives. UNF Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/979/
