Destinations › Hanover, New Hampshire

Baker Library and the Orozco murals

The 1928 library with the bell tower modelled on Independence Hall, and in its reserve reading room downstairs the Epic of American Civilization, twenty-four fresco panels painted by Jose Clemente Orozco between 1932 and 1934, a National Historic Landmark.

Guide's tip. Free, daily. The murals are in the Orozco Room on the lower level; ask at the desk.

On a walking tour. Stop 6 of 11 on the walking tour Dartmouth, round the Green, every stop on a map in walking order.

about 30 min for a visit