The central library is a 1912 Beaux Arts stunner by Cass Gilbert, celebrated architect of New York's Woolworth Building.

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Within weeks of the ODJB's engagement, Columbia Graphophone Co. executives caught wind of the uptown excitement and invited the band down to its Woolworth Building recording studio.

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It was designed by Junzo Yoshimura, a pupil of Antonin Raymond, who worked on the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

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