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The Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library is the primary library building at Vassar College, in Arlington. Designed by Francis R. Allen in the Perpendicular Gothic style and constructed from Germantown stone with limestone trimming from Indiana, the building features three wings built around a central tower supported by buttress walls and crowned with battlements and pinnacles.

A magnificent stone frieze of college and university seals flanks the entrance to the building below the ceiling windows in the central hall and below the gargoyles on the bottom corners of the tower. The Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library encompasses seven libraries at Vassar and comprises around million volumes and 7,500 serial, newspaper, and periodical titles, and an extensive collection of microfilm and microfiche.

Address: 15 Main Campus Drive, Arlington, NY 12603

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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