Campus Architecture Database: Frank and Laura Lewis Library

LaGrange College, La Grange, Ga.

Building Type: Library

Construction Type: New

Cost: $15.4-million

Square Footage: 45,000

Architect: Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects

Contractor: Batson-Cook Company

Opened: 2009

Nearly three times the size of the library it replaces, the Lewis Library is intended to serve as the college’s intellectual commons. It has room for 190,000 volumes in its stacks, as well as group and private study space, classrooms, a media-production suite, a writing and tutoring center, a 24-hour study area, and a 50-seat auditorium. It earned LEED silver certification.

(Photo: LaGrange College)

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