Modern Federal · Libraries

Entrance to the Slover Library, a public library that has both a historic section (shown here) and a modernist wing, in downtown Norfolk, Virginia

Virginia · 1850–1939

Entrance to the Slover Library, a public library that has both a historic section (shown here) and a modernist wing, in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, Virginia, 1850–1939
Entrance to the Slover Library, a public library that has both a historic section (shown here) and a modernist wing, in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, Virginia, 1850–1939. Libraries — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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