| 1911 |
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 April 8: Mayor John E. Reyburn signs an ordinance setting aside the central
library plot on the Fairmount Parkway at Logan Square |
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April 10: Traction magnate and library trustee Peter A. B. Widener suggests
Horace Trumbauer as the Free Library's advisor for an architectural
competition to find a design of the central library |
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April 21: The Free Library Board of Trustees creates the Committee on Main
Library Site and Building to erect the central library |
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 May 15: The First Municipal City Planning Exhibition in America opens at City Hall and includes a model of the Fairmount Parkway showing a library at Logan Square |
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 May 23: The New York Public Library by architects Carrère & Hastings
opens; it serves as a model for the central library's design |
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June 1: Mayor John E. Reyburn decides that the Free Library should not hold a
design competition, but should appoint Horace Trumbauer as the architect
of the central library |
