{"id":10422,"date":"2012-11-08T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2012-11-15T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:04:55","slug":"mental-floss-names-armstrong-browning-library-one-of-the-nations-10-most-beautiful-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/11\/mental-floss-names-armstrong-browning-library-one-of-the-nations-10-most-beautiful-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Floss names Armstrong Browning Library one of the nation&#8217;s 10 most beautiful libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"abl-nov12\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/abl-nov12.jpg\" alt=\"Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" \/>No less an authority than Mental Floss &#8212; a popular magazine dedicated to facts and trivia &#8212; recently named Baylor&#8217;s Armstrong Browning Library one of &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/148866\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been inside, you know why. (And if you haven&#8217;t visited, you should.) Mental Floss describes it as &#8220;a 3-story, Italian\u00a0Renaissance-styled masterpiece adorned with 62 stained glass windows, massive marble columns, intricate ceiling designs and other wonderful details.&#8221; (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/ArmstrongBrowning\/\" target=\"_blank\">This photo gallery<\/a><\/strong> might give you some idea of the library&#8217;s look and feel.)<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that the ballroom so beautifully depicted in Disney&#8217;s <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em> was modeled after Armstrong Browning. (The connection?\u00a0Jim Hillin, a 1979 Baylor grad who oversaw CGI artistic direction for Walt Disney Animation in the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s and was responsible for the movie&#8217;s groundbreaking CGI.)<\/p>\n<p>Sic\u00a0\u2019em, ABL!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You might also like:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2012\/09\/baylors-texas-collection-named-among-worlds-top-20-university-special-collections\/\">Baylor\u2019s Texas Collection named among world\u2019s top 20 university special collections<\/a>\u00a0(Sept. 2012)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2012\/01\/armstrong-browning-library-named-one-of-the-50-most-beautiful-college-libraries-in-the-world\/\">Armstrong Browning Library named one of the 50 most beautiful college libraries in the world<\/a>\u00a0(Jan. 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No less an authority than Mental Floss &#8212; a popular magazine dedicated to facts and trivia &#8212; recently named Baylor&#8217;s Armstrong Browning Library one of &#8220;The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States.&#8221; If you&#8217;ve ever been inside, you know why. (And if you haven&#8217;t visited, you should.) Mental Floss describes it as &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-photo-galleries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}