Editing Suzzallo Library (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Suzzallo Library 01.jpg|thumb|Graduate Reading Room in the Suzzallo Library]]
The library's original architects, [[Charles Bebb|Charles H. Bebb]] and [[Carl F. Gould]],<ref name=official-pamphlet /><ref name=JohnstonDotson>{{citation | last1 = Johnston | first1 = Norman | last2 = Dotson | first2 = Jay| title = University of Washington | publisher = Princeton Architectural Press | year = 2001 | page = 30 | isbn = 1-56898-247-X}}</ref> called for three structures built in [[Collegiate Gothic]] style<ref name=official-pamphlet /><ref name=JohnstonDotson /> and arranged in a roughly equilateral [[triangle]] with a bell tower in the center. The proposed {{convert|300|ft|m|adj=on}} bell tower, however, was never built.<ref name=official-pamphlet /> A terra cotta bas relief of this plan, with the bell tower, can still be found on the wall outside the northeast entrance to Smith Hall.<ref name=JohnstonDotson />

[[Image:Suzzallo Library Across Red Square.jpg|thumb|Suzzallo Library, looking east across [[Red Square (University of Washington)|Red Square]]]]
The first phase, completed 1926, built the wing that forms the west face of the triangle.<ref name=official-pamphlet /> Its façade dominates the eastern side of the university's Central Plaza, better known as [[Red Square (University of Washington)|Red Square]]. The south wing, the second phase of construction, was completed in 1935.<ref name=official-pamphlet /> Part of this second phase added a floor between the first and second floors of the original building, and the curving Grand Staircase on either side of what was formerly a rotunda. The original plans for the third wing of the library, completed in 1963, were extensively revised, as by this time the university had largely moved away from its earlier architectural style and had adopted instead [[Modernism|modernist]] [[concrete]] and [[glass]] forms.  A fourth and final addition was completed in 1990 with the {{vanchor|Kenneth S. Allen Library}} wing, named for the father of [[Microsoft]] co-founder [[Paul Allen]]; the elder Allen was an associate director of the university library system from 1960 to 1982. Between the years 2000 and 2002, Suzzallo Library underwent extensive retrofitting to strengthen the structure's integrity as a precaution against the effects of an earthquake. It remained open to the public throughout the entire renovation process, although sections were closed for periods of time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/suzzren/readroom.html |title=Suzzallo Library restoration |access-date=2008-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929200309/http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/suzzren/readroom.html |archive-date=2008-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While the [[2001 Nisqually earthquake]] occurred during the renovation, the library only sustained minor damage as 60 percent of the interior seismic work was completed when it occurred.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ellison |first1=Jake |title='Our beautiful library is back,' UW proclaims |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Our-beautiful-library-is-back-UW-proclaims-1097380.php |access-date=March 26, 2022 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |date=September 30, 2002}}</ref>

The {{convert|250|ft|m|adj=on}} long, {{convert|52|ft|m|adj=on}} wide, {{convert|65|ft|m|adj=on}} high Graduate Reading Room<ref name=official-pamphlet /><ref name=Beautiful /> (illustrated below) features cast-stone ashlar wall blocks and details, and oak bookcases topped with hand-carved friezes of native plants, under a painted and stenciled timber-vaulted ceiling. Tall leaded windows feature 35 foot [[stained glass]] panels<ref name=Beautiful>{{cite news|last=Tep|first=Ratha|title=America's Most Beautiful College Campuses|url=http://www.slate.com/slideshows/life/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses.html#slide_2|access-date=3 November 2012|newspaper=Slate Magazine|date=September 30, 2011}}</ref> reproducing Renaissance [[watermark]]s. On the [[oriel window|oriel]]s at each end of the room, painted world globes bear the names of European explorers. The Graduate Reading Room spans the entire third floor of the west front of the library.  Its distinctive look, reminiscent of the [[great hall]]s of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, is also said to have been inspired by Henry Suzzallo's stated belief that universities should be "cathedrals of learning."

[[Image:University of Washington - Allen Library 01A.jpg|left|thumb|Allen Library]]

Adorning the exterior of the early wings are [[terra cotta]] [[sculpture]]s by Allen Clark of influential thinkers and artists selected by the faculty.  These include [[Moses]], [[Louis Pasteur]], [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Shakespeare]], [[Plato]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Justinian I]], [[Isaac Newton]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[Herodotus]], [[Adam Smith]], [[Homer]], [[Johann Gutenberg]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], [[Charles Darwin]] and [[Hugo Grotius]]. The front façade is also decorated with stone coats of arms from universities around the world, including Toronto, Louvain, Virginia, California, Yale, Heidelberg, Bologna, Oxford, Paris, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Uppsala, and Salamanca. Three cast stone figures representing "Thought", "Inspiration", and "Mastery" stand above the main entrance.<ref name=official-pamphlet />