Teicher notes the liquidation of Borders in 2011, but also credits the ongoing "buy local" movement and independents' growing comfort with modern technology, whether for more efficient inventory systems or more effective online promotion.
Built in 1880, it is a prime example of the American Aesthetic Movement and one of only two surviving interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany's Associated Artists cooperative. (The other is the adjacent library.) The room showcases elaborate architectural woodwork by Stanford White, an exotic painted frieze by Francis D.