John Henry Chamberlain
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John Henry Chamberlain, generally known professionally as J. H. Chamberlain, was a British nineteenth-century architect based in Birmingham.
John Henry Chamberlain
Shenstone House of 1855: Chamberlain's first building in Birmingham, and the first High Victorian building in the town
The rebuilt Central Library of 1882, demolished in 1974
Chamberlain enrolling Hercules as a member of the Birmingham and Midland Institute: detail from an 1866 leaflet
Birmingham Central Library
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Birmingham Central Library was the main public library in Birmingham, England, from 1974 until 2013, replacing a library opened in 1865 and rebuilt in 1882. For a time the largest non-national library
John Henry Chamberlain
…The Birmingham & Midlands Institute, Paradise Street façade (1881); "exhuberant gothic style" - demolished 1966. Birmingham Central Library (1882) – Demolished in 1974. Chamberlain Memorial, Birmingham (1882…
Birmingham Central Library in 2013
Central Library after the 1879 fire
The tall clerestoried reading room of the 1882 library.