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Date

Winter 1-1987

Description

The Presidential Library and Museum of 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was dedicated in 1979, but planning for the library began during Kennedy’s life. He even visited potential locations in October 1963. Kennedy chose Boston as a location because of it’s proximity to scholarly resources, referring likely to Harvard University, which Kennedy had attended and graduated form. However, the location was eventually changed to Columbia Point, nearby the University of Massachusetts. The site had originally been a garbage dump.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Presidential_Library_and_Museum

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1917

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

architecture, presidential library, modernism, public architecture

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