{"id":2753,"date":"2016-08-03T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","slug":"live-in-library-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/08\/03\/live-in-library-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"live-in library workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6sqft.com\/life-behind-the-stacks-the-secret-apartments-of-new-york-libraries\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2766\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/08\/rose-terence-and-patrick-thornberry-new-york-society-library.png\" alt=\"Rose-Terence-and-Patrick-Thornberry-new-york-society-library.png\" width=\"914\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/08\/rose-terence-and-patrick-thornberry-new-york-society-library.png 914w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/08\/rose-terence-and-patrick-thornberry-new-york-society-library-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/08\/rose-terence-and-patrick-thornberry-new-york-society-library-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/08\/rose-terence-and-patrick-thornberry-new-york-society-library-624x317.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/a>For almost a century, some New York City libraries had live-in caretakers. Here&#8217;s a highlight from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.6sqft.com\/life-behind-the-stacks-the-secret-apartments-of-new-york-libraries\/\">the 6SQFT article<\/a>: when the Thornberry family looked after the New York Society Library and lived in it, young Rose Mary Thornberry got to host sleepovers there! Aw man. I wish I coulda gone to one of those.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody sent this shenanigan to me a while back and it got lost in the mire that is my online life. Thanks, Suzie DeGrasse, for bringing it back to my attention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost a century, some New York City libraries had live-in caretakers. Here&#8217;s a highlight from the 6SQFT article: when the Thornberry family looked after the New York Society Library and lived in it, young Rose Mary Thornberry got to host sleepovers there! Aw man. I wish I coulda gone to one of those. Somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Ip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}