The following narrative outlines the role of donor William W. cook and the architects who built the Law Quadrangle 70 years ago. The report is excerpted and adapted from 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002-26). The author is director of the University of Michigan Law School\u27s Law Library

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University of Michigan Law SchoolUniversity of Michigan Law School Scholarship RepositoryArticles Faculty Scholarship2002'A Time to Build' - William W. Cook and HisArchitects: Edward York and Philip SawyerMargaret A. LearyUniversity of Michigan Law School, mleary@umich.eduAvailable at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/1703Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articlesPart of the Legal Education Commons, and the Library and Information Science CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For moreinformation, please contact mlaw.repository@umich.edu.Recommended CitationLeary, Margaret A. "'A Time to Build' - William W. Cook and His Architects: Edward York and Philip Sawyer." Law Quad. Notes 45, no.3 (2002): 8-9. (Excerpted and adapted from an article originally published under the title "Building a Foreign Law Collection at theUniversity of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960." Law Libr. J. 94, no. 3 (2002): 395-425.)I BRIEF rioinal )orh aJZd Lill') er pellcil clrawiJZo, we t facade . 8 I LQN Fall I Winter 2003 'a time to build ' WLLIA 1 ~ r. ~ o K D HI D PHIL I E D"'\ c RD T 0 K _ TI1e follou i12a 11n1Tatil ·e 011tli11 tlze role if do12or ffilliw11 H~ ook and t11e architect. u ho built tlze Lcnt' Quadnmgle 70 1ear ooo. Tize report i :\C rpted and adapted from 9-t a\\ Librar) J urncll 39---t2- (-002-2 ). 1zeaut1zori' dire tor of the L11il'ersit; of 'J i lziomz Law c110ol' Lmt' Library By Margar t A. Leary k fir t w rk d ,. ith R HIT 'T . d \. hi h David m ramm d with painting , rar tap tri , and fanta ti furnitur .' Y rk nd aw r r, ~ 11 \ ing th ir d partur fr m M Kim , M d , and Whit , "nll fth 14 nt r din th n u ual rat wa th ith ut r t rati n f" n r mai n "" ur and rbilt . n arti l in th Jun 2000 i u [th mparativ th rational iv pr of Yariou ton and othi - tr] tat until th f th . Hut hin n , ap ul ,' th rigina\l r built f r Mr . H ll ' a mpl t d in I 34 and i f th arli r fr m th la t tag f plannin . new pia::::alentryi.t'a), abore i11 cro ectio1z and belou a part of a three-dimen io11al model, i to oile the Law cl10ol it fir t "front cloor," an entry from lonroe treet, a uell a prolide a breatlztahino l'iell' of the Readi110 Room from tlzat entrpt'a) . It al o ll'ill proi ide beloll'-oroimd co1111ection with the Lall' Library and the neu• buildino at tlze 011tl1eastenz corner of the Lau· Quadranole. Tize current "bachpach ' of alrmzimmz and tlze library tacl~ it"ill be remo1·ed. LQN Fall I Winter 2003 I 9 

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