One of the places we visited during Open House Chicago in October 2016 was the Charles Deering Memorial Library on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston.A design by James Gamble Rogers, who did a lot of academic buildings at Northwestern and other schools. Apparently his taste for Gothic revival wasn’t entirely appreciated by the time the library opened in 1933, especially by budding modernists, but we don’t want every campus to look like the University of Illinois at Chicago, do we? (As interesting as that place is.) The library’s a handsome collegiate structure.

As you enter the library, you receive some advice. They say most things aren’t carved in stone, but this is. Also: Go Cubs Go!
Where to find such wisdom? Another entrance provides the answer. I’ll go along with that. Also, Go Wildcats!
Inside are artful windows. “The Deering Library’s 68 painted window medallions were created by G. Owen Bonawit (1891-1971), a master of secular stained glass from New York City,” the library says.

“The medallions represent scenes and figures from literature, mythology, religion and history. Library staff helped to select subjects and sent illustrations to Bonawit for translation into the designs.”
Such as early North America.