Robert Crown Library - Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
N 37° 25.451 W 122° 10.066
10S E 573636 N 4142255
Robert Crown Library is part of the Stanford Law School on the Stanford University campus.
Waymark Code: WMTGCJ
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2016
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About the Place:
Robert Crown Law Library is the legal research center of Stanford University. The law library welcomes Stanford students, faculty and staff to delve into the rich collection and turn to the friendly and service-oriented staff for help with research needs.
There's a plaque located in front of the library in what's known as the 'Crown Quadrangle'. It reads:
CROWN QUADRANGLE
These buildings were dedicated
on September 26, 1975.
Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth
President of the United States,
spoke in honor of the dedication
on September 21, 1975.
About the Person
Robert Crown Law Library is named in memory of Robert Crown (b. 1921, d. 1969), a business materials and real estate executive. Robert died of a heart attack in 1969 at age 48. He was the first of three sons born to Henry & Rebecca Crown of Chicago, Illinois. Henry Crown (b. 1896, d. 1990) was an industrialist and philanthropist whose generous donation to Stanford Law School in the late 1960s enabled the building of Crown Quadrangle which has been Stanford Law School’s home since its completion in 1975. ~source
The Robert Crown Library is often confused with another Crown, that being Robert W. Crown, who was a California assemblyman and passed away in 1973.