The Wisconsin State Historical Society Library Reading Room is Ready for Its Close-Up

Link to April 21 Wisconsin State Journal article, "Awe-inspiring Reading Room restoration debuts at state Historical Society".

Excerpt:  How does one restore a "sense of place" when there is little evidence of what the original looked like?

Architectural detective work, attention to quality, brilliant - meaning both bright and intelligent - solutions and persistence were brought to the task of restoring the Library Reading Room at the Wisconsin Historical Society's campus headquarters.

For the $2.9 million renovation and restoration project, the society received a room demure in tone, expansive in structure and inventive in meeting an odd challenge of in-with-the-really-old, out-with-the-old.

More pictures here.