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Fisher Fine Arts Library

Frank Furness's red sandstone library of 1891, a National Historic Landmark, with a four-storey reading room under a skylight and the stacks in a glass and iron tower behind. Louis Kahn taught here and loved it.

Guide's tip. Visitors welcome to the reading room; quiet.

On a walking tour. Stop 5 of 10 on the walking tour Penn, along Locust Walk, every stop on a map in walking order.

about 20 min for a visit