Folger Shakespeare Library interior, 1959
Folger Shakespeare Library (and Interiors): The Folger Shakespeare Library's simple, modern exterior hides an Elizabethan interior with a full-scale 17th century English theater, and the world's largest collection of Shakespeareana.
The Folger Shakespeare Library was constructed on the site of Grant's Row, owing to the acquisition of the land in 1928 by Henry Clay Folger. Folger, a millionaire Standard Oil executive, devoted a…