Central Library of Korea University, Seoul

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.286

Category

Architecture

Era

1937년

Designated year

1981

Location

성북구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 성북구 안암로 145(안암동5가, 고려대학교)

Coordinates

37.590011, 127.033248

This library building was built to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the opening of Boseong College, the predecessor of the present Korea University. It is a 5-story building designed by Park Dong-jin who had designed the main building of the same college. Typical of buildings of the Gothic style, it was built of fine granite, and the building work was commenced in 1935 and finished in 1937. Presently it is used for research rooms of professors and the graduate school. As for the pattern and structure of the building, it is said to have been based on the library of Duke University, U.S.A. The most outstanding part of this building is the top of the 5-story tower at the corner of the building built in the western medieval style, for its precise decoration and for the windows in the Gothic style.

Location