Cecil H. Green Library - Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
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N 37° 25.597 W 122° 10.031
10S E 573685 N 4142525
The Cecil H. Green Library (commonly known as Green Library) is the main library on the Stanford University campus.
Waymark Code: WMTJF9
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/29/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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About the Place:
Green Library is the largest Stanford University library, and contains collections in the humanities, social sciences, area studies, and interdisciplinary areas. Green also has the longest business hours on campus and is a popular research destination for scholars of all disciplines. ~source

A major new library was approved in 1913 and completed in 1919.[2] This building forms the older portion of the Green Library. In 1980, a larger annex was added and the library renamed for Cecil H. Green. The original part of the building is now known as the Bing Wing for Peter Bing, who donated a substantial amount of money for fixing it after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. ~source

About the Person:
Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was a founder of Texas Instruments. With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist who helped found the University of Texas at Dallas, Green College at the University of British Columbia, St. Mark's School of Texas, and Green College at the University of Oxford. They were also major contributors to the Cecil H. Green Library at Stanford University, the Cecil H. & Ida Green Graduate and Professional Center at the Colorado School of Mines, the Cecil H. & Ida Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at University of California, San Diego, and the Cecil & Ida Green Building for earth sciences at MIT (designed by I.M. Pei) ~source

Year it was dedicated: 1980

Location of Coordinates: Building entrance

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Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Building

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