No building type proclaims the goal of social equality like a public library, open to all citizens for purposes ranging from edification to guilty fun. [...] the aura of civic aspiration is particularly strong in the early 20th century libraries funded nationwide by steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie. The Sunset branch was the fifth, a vision of Classical order that remains potent, even if some of the “great writers” inscribed on the outer walls now draw a blank.
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