When the second suspended ceiling in Ripley Library was removed, an elegant wooden vaulted ceiling was revealed. RIPLEY — Sometimes what starts out as a calamity can lead to the discovery of beauty.

When architects planned the expansion and renovation of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library four years ago, they wanted to do something attractive with the vaulted ceiling of the children’s section ...

LENOX — The town-owned library is facing a major structural rehabilitation and restoration project to repair and shore up the historic plaster ceiling in the dome room. The total project cost could ...

LANCASTER — Scaffolding is currently being removed from inside the Thayer Memorial Library’s octagonal rotunda, where a three-month-long restoration project was recently completed on the 151-year-old ...

A portion of the Wahoo Public Library ceiling has collapsed under the weight of accumulated water. Officials said a frozen line for the fire suppression system had burst Tuesday, allowing water to ...

An estimated 5.4 magnitude earthquake rattled Placentia Tuesday morning, causing some of its worst damage to an organization least able to cope with it. Placentia’s public library, located on the ...

We’ve had a lot of projects with challenging ceiling structures.” — Stephen Reilly, project manager for the restoration of the Dome Room ceiling at the Lenox Library “We partners are elbow-deep, not ...

At 40-feet wide and 2,000 pounds, the ceiling clock at the Lexington Central Public Library is the biggest in the world. A brass Foucault pendulum hangs down 70 feet from the center of the clock. Who ...

Shortly after the new Westwood Public Library opened its doors to the public in 2013, the Library experienced instances in which wooden ceiling slats became dislodged and fell to the floor. This ...

Children ages 6 to 12 can channel their inner Michelangelo and beautify the ceiling of Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch during a free program. They’ll paint a ceiling tile during the Creative Tiles ...

Library officials hope the Dickinson Memorial Library will reopen Tuesday after a ceiling that fell last week is repaired. The ceiling fell the night of May 6, when no one was in the building, said ...