Modern Federal · Libraries

A room for reading and sedentary play at the modernist public library that's part of the Warren Civic Center in Warren, Michigan

Warren, Michigan · 1850–1939

A room for reading and sedentary play at the modernist public library that's part of the Warren Civic Center in Warren, Michigan, Warren, Michigan, 1850–1939
A room for reading and sedentary play at the modernist public library that's part of the Warren Civic Center in Warren, Michigan, Warren, Michigan, 1850–1939. Libraries — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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