Going Medieval

Going Medieval

Yesterday, we looked into the lights. Today, with this 2017 photo essay, we widen the angle.

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With its über Gothic interior, Sterling Memorial Library is your ticket to the Middle Ages, without all the awful stuff that happened in the Middle Ages.

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Happy time-travels.

Sterling Memorial Library
120 High St, New Haven (map)
Currently closed to due to COVID-19
www.web.library.yale.edu/building/sterling-library

Written and photographed by Dan Mims. This lightly updated story originally published on January 26, 2017.

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