Arch at the entry of Special Collections
This mahogany arch originally served as the fireplace over mantel in the Ladies Reading Room in the Main Library at 10th and Hennepin Avenue that opened in 1889.
In 1960 the arch was relocated to the second Minneapolis Central Library building at 4th and Hennepin Avenue and served as a niche for the Minerva statue (now in the library’s atrium). Since Minneapolis Central opened in 2006 it has served as the entrance for Special Collections.
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Most dispatches are from librarians at the James K. Hosmer Special Collections. Special Collections' Minneapolis History Collection covers an extensive array of materials on city history, including thousands of photographs, clippings, documents, books, programs, reports, yearbooks and hundreds of archival collections. Special Collections also houses several other collections on World War II, 19th century literature, the Abolitionist movement, Mark Twain, and the History of Books and Printing. You can visit Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library. Hennepin County Library includes 41 libraries. More than 5 million books, CDs and DVDs in 40 world languages. Almost 1800 public computers. One great system serving 1.2 million residents of Hennepin County. We're on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, too.
