![]() ![]() The rough textured building contrasts with its vibrant red roof tiles and 25 foot picture windows. The architecture of the building was designed to mimic a medieval church both inside and out, the structure creates a dominating and fascinating location for the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. Porter Hall was originally the Plymouth Methodist Church, while the North Hall was originally First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1911. In Buffalo, the Karpeles Museum consists of two separate buildings: Porter Hall at 453 Porter Avenue at Jersey Street and Plymouth Avenue and North Hall at 220 North Street at Elmwood Avenue. Examples of documents from the collection. ![]() As of February 2020, there were seventeen museums in fifteen cities. The museums are located in small and midsize cities, although the Karpeleses put on an exhibit on Central Park West in New York City in 1991. All of the Karpeles Manuscript Library services are free. In addition, Karpeles is aggressively expanding the content of its website. Items are rotated between museums quarterly, and each of the museums presents a daily general exhibit and one or more special scheduled exhibits throughout the year. It was founded in the early 1980s by California real estate magnates David and Marsha Karpeles, with the goal of stimulating interest in learning, especially in children, and to make the collection more accessible, is distributed between several Karpeles museums across the US, each located in a historic building, plus "mini-museums" in schools and office buildings. The Karpeles Manuscript Library is a private collection of more than a million manuscripts and documents in the United States, the largest such collection in the world. ![]()
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