Providence Athenaeum Library

I visited here this weekend. It's the fourth oldest library in the country.

In order to enter, you are required to don a hounds tooth cloak and smoke (or at least pretend to smoke) from a mahogany pipe. It is simply law.

(A mystery involving an escaped African parrot and a missing baroness was solved here at one point.)

More pictures here.

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