#4: Cincinnati’s Old Main Library
Would you believe us if we said this gorgeous library used to exist in the United States? This cavernous library looks like something out of Harry Potter or an incredibly old British manor. However, this library used to exist in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Old Main Library looks nothing like your average U.S. library. Sadly, it no longer exists.
The Old Main Library was originally built as an opera house in the 1860s. The story goes that the opera company went bankrupt before the building was completed, so it was sold to Cincinnati’s new library. Although the building looks beautiful in old photographs, patrons from the time said the building was very impractical for a library. Sadly, the Old Main Library was torn down in 1955. We wish they would have at least preserved it as a historical building!