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LuEsther T. Mertz Library, the Glossary

The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is located at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx, New York City.^[1]

84 relations: Aluminium, Anna Murray Vail, Architectural terracotta, Avenue (landscape), Baluster, Bay (architecture), Botanical Garden station (Metro-North), Botany, Bronx Park, Buff (colour), Calvert Vaux, Cartouche, Clinton and Russell, Columbia College, Columbia University, Coping (architecture), Corinthian order, Cornice, David Hosack, Dormer, Drinking fountain, Eggers & Higgins, Eleanor Cross Marquand, Embryology, Emil Starkenstein, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, Ennead Architects, Entablature, Ernest Flagg, Ethnobotany, Façade, Government of New York City, Great Seal of the United States, Green wall, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Groundbreaking, Harriet Barnes Pratt, Herbarium, Heroic nudity, Horticulture, Italian Baroque, John Hendley Barnhart, John Torrey, Library stack, Liriodendron, Lucien Marcus Underwood, LuEsther Mertz, Mansard roof, Mermaid, Merman, Metro-North Railroad, ... Expand index (34 more) »
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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Anna Murray Vail (January 7, 1863 – December 18, 1955) was an American botanist and the first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. LuEsther T. Mertz Library and Anna Murray Vail are new York Botanical Garden.

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Architectural terracotta

Architectural terracotta refers to a fired mixture of clay and water that can be used in a non-structural, semi-structural, or structural capacity on the exterior or interior of a building.

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Avenue (landscape)

In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.

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Bay (architecture)

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment.

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Botanical Garden station (Metro-North)

Botanical Garden station (also known as Botanical Garden–East 200th Street station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bronx Park

Bronx Park is a public park along the Bronx River, in the Bronx, New York City.

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Buff (colour)

Buff (bubalinus) is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux FAIA (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer.

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Cartouche

In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.

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Clinton and Russell

Clinton and Russell was a well-known architectural firm founded in 1894 in New York City, United States.

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Columbia College, Columbia University

Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college of Columbia University, a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Coping (architecture)

Coping (from cope, Latin capa) is the capping or covering of a wall.

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Corinthian order

The Corinthian order (Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall.

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David Hosack

David Hosack (August 31, 1769 – December 22, 1835) was an American physician, botanist, and educator.

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Dormer

A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.

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Drinking fountain

A drinking fountain, also called a water fountain or water bubbler, is a fountain designed to provide drinking water.

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Eggers & Higgins

Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers (August 4, 1882 – April 23, 1964) and Daniel Paul Higgins (September 12, 1886 – December 26, 1953).

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Eleanor Cross Marquand

Eleanor Cross Marquand (15 Apr 1873– 27 Feb 1950) was an authority on the representation and symbolism of flowers and trees in art, particularly of floral emblems in the early Christian church.

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Embryology

Embryology (from Greek ἔμβρυον, embryon, "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of animal biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.

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Emil Starkenstein

Emil Starkenstein (December 18, 1884 – November 6, 1942) was a Czech-Jewish pharmacologist and one of the founders of clinical pharmacology.

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Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is a greenhouse at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx, New York, United States. LuEsther T. Mertz Library and Enid A. Haupt Conservatory are new York Botanical Garden and new York City Designated Landmarks in the Bronx.

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Ennead Architects

Ennead Architects LLP (/ˈenēˌad/) is a New York City-based architectural firm.

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Entablature

An entablature (nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals.

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Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg (February 6, 1857 – April 10, 1947) was an American architect in the Beaux-Arts style.

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Ethnobotany

Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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Government of New York City

The government of New York City, headquartered at New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan, is organized under the New York City Charter and provides for a mayor-council system.

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Great Seal of the United States

The Great Seal is the seal of the United States of America.

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Green wall

A green wall is a vertical built structure intentionally covered by vegetation.

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod, turf-cutting, or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project.

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Harriet Barnes Pratt

Harriet Barnes Pratt (November 11, 1878 – 1969) was an American philanthropist, collector of Americana, non-profit administrator and horticulturist.

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Herbarium

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

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Heroic nudity

Heroic nudity or ideal nudity is a concept in classical scholarship to describe the un-realist use of nudity in classical sculpture to show figures who may be heroes, deities, or semi-divine beings.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Italian Baroque

Italian Baroque (or Barocco) is a stylistic period in Italian history and art that spanned from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.

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John Hendley Barnhart

John Hendley Barnhart (October 4, 1871 – November 11, 1949) was an American botanist and author, specializing in biographies of botanists. LuEsther T. Mertz Library and John Hendley Barnhart are new York Botanical Garden.

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John Torrey

John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician.

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Library stack

In library science and architecture, a stack or bookstack (often referred to as a library building's stacks) is a book storage area, as opposed to a reading area.

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Liriodendron

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).

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Lucien Marcus Underwood

Lucien Marcus Underwood (October 26, 1853 – November 16, 1907) was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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LuEsther Mertz

LuEsther Turner Mertz (December 30, 1905, Cincinnati, Ohio – February 5, 1991, Port Washington, New York) was a businesswoman and philanthropist.

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Mansard roof

A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.

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Mermaid

In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.

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Merman

A merman (mermen; also merlad or merboy in youth), the male counterpart of the mythical female mermaid, is a legendary creature which is human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape.

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Metro-North Railroad

Metro-North Railroad, trading as MTA Metro-North Railroad, is a suburban commuter rail service operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public authority of the U.S. state of New York.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. LuEsther T. Mertz Library and National Archives and Records Administration are research libraries in the United States.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Sculpture Society

Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States.

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New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. LuEsther T. Mertz Library and New York Botanical Garden are Bronx Park and National Register of Historic Places in the Bronx.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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New York City Board of Estimate

The New York City Board of Estimate was a governmental body in New York City responsible for numerous areas of municipal policy and decisions, including the city budget, land-use, contracts, franchises, and water rates.

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New York City Department of Buildings

The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.

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New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called the Parks Department or NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.

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New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law.

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New York State Legislature

The New York State Legislature consists of the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York: the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly.

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Ornament (art)

In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.

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Pediment

Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.

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Pilaster

In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.

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Populus × canadensis

Populus × canadensis, known as Canadian poplar or Carolina poplar, is a naturally occurring hybrid of Populus nigra and Populus deltoides.

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Renaissance Revival architecture

Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes.

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Research library

A research library is a library that contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects.

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Robert F. Wagner Jr.

Robert Ferdinand Wagner II (April 20, 1910 – February 12, 1991) was an American diplomat and politician who served three terms as the mayor of New York City from 1954 through 1965.

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Robert Hiester Montgomery

Robert Hiester Montgomery (September 21, 1872 – May 2, 1953) was an American accountant and educator.

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Robert W. Gibson

Robert W. Gibson, AIA, (1854 in England – 1927 in New York City) was an English-born American ecclesiastical architect active in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New York state.

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Rotunda (architecture)

A rotunda is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar.

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Samuel Parsons

Samuel Bowne Parsons Jr. (February 8, 1844 – February 3, 1923), was an American landscape architect.

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Sarah Gildersleeve Fife

Sarah Gildersleeve Fife (28 Sep 1885 – 20 May 1949) was a prominent force among women bibliophiles in the first half of the 20th century and a leader in gardening and horticulture, advocating the use of plantings around army bases and military hospitals.

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Seal of New York (state)

The state seal of New York features the state arms (officially adopted in 1778) surrounded by the words "The Great Seal of the State of New York".

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Seal of New York City

The seal of New York City is the city's official corporate insignia.

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Southern Boulevard (Bronx)

Southern Boulevard is a street in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

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Spandrel

A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent arches, or one of the four spaces between a circle within a square.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Transom (architecture)

In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it.

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The webbed foot is a specialized limb with interdigital membranes (webbings) that aids in aquatic locomotion, present in a variety of tetrapod vertebrates.

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William Appleton Potter

William Appleton Potter (December 10, 1842 – February 19, 1909) was an American architect who designed numerous buildings for Princeton University, as well as municipal offices and churches.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuEsther_T._Mertz_Library

Also known as Administration Building (NYBG), Administration Building (New York Botanical Garden), Fountain of Life (Tefft), Library Building (NYBG), Library Building (New York Botanical Garden), LuEsther Mertz Library, Mertz Library, Museum Building (NYBG), Museum Building (New York Botanical Garden), NYBG Library, NYBG Museum, New York Botanical Garden Administration Building, New York Botanical Garden Library, New York Botanical Garden Museum.

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LuEsther T. Mertz Library, the Glossary

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See also

Bronx Park

Historic district contributing properties in New York City

Libraries established in 1899

Libraries in the Bronx

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City

New York Botanical Garden

Science libraries in the United States

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