City Beautiful 1918

In the final year of World War I our civic ancestors, exhibiting the excellent aesthetic taste of their era, produced still another stunning Andrew Carnegie Library, in downtown Sacramento. Writes Dan Flynn in his 1994 "Inside Guide to Sacramento,"  "The original library was donated by industrialist Andrew Carnegie and was designed by San Francisco City Architect Rixford in a Florentine Renaissance style...The original library is now used for conference rooms and special events."

The entrance to those events

A closer view of the rich details of this triumphal arch 

One of a dozen lion heads that guard the first floor

Indulge me this nostalgia. Weren't those the days?