Designed by Norman Isham and completed in 1907, your Annmary Brown Memorial rises like a granite temple with bronze doors. This building functions as an art museum, library and mausoleum and is one of six libraries comprising the University Library system. Designed by architect Norman Isham and completed in 1907, it rises like a granite temple with bronze doors, built at the request of General Rush Hawkins. Hawkins intended it to house his collection, including incunabula, and to serve as a memorial to his wife, Annmary Brown (1837–1903); the Hawkinses are interred in a crypt here.
From 1917 to 1953 Margaret Bingham Stillwell cared for the collection as curator; she was a renowned bibliographer who also wrote histories of the library. In 1948 the museum merged with Brown University, and the collection was moved to the John Hay Library in 1990. Today the museum features a wide array of art from around the world and is normally open Monday through Friday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. during the academic year, from Labor Day through Memorial Day. Notice the granite facade and the bronze doors of the building that shelters art, books, and the Hawkins crypt.