University of Chicago

The towers of Harper Memorial Library rising over autumn birches on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park. Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge designed it in a Gothic style that borrowed from King's College Chapel at Cambridge and from Oxford's Magdalen and Christ Church, and it was dedicated on June 11, 1912. Its vaulted reading room is now a study space in the Arley D. Cathey Learning Center, so the grandest room on the quad is still one where students spend their evenings working.