Baker Library/Bloomberg Center

It includes the Baker Library, built in 1927, and the Bloomberg Center, completed in 2005.

[1] From 1930 to 2007, the bell in the tower came from the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Russia; it had been donated by Charles Richard Crane.

[1] The complex includes 67 faculty offices, the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room, named for alumnus Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien,[2] the Stamps Reading Room and the Frist Faculty Commons, named for philanthropist Thomas F. Frist Jr.[1][3] The 1927 building was designed in the Georgian Revival style by McKim, Mead & White.

[1][4] The 2005 expansion was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and cost $53.4 million.

[5][6] The library collections contain many rare books and documents of business history.

The Baker Library