Below: Architect’s drawing of the Fackenthal Library ca. 1937
Architect: W. H. Lee of Philadelphia
Published in the 1938 yearbook Oriflamme. Image source: F&M Library Digital Collections

This Shadek-Fackenthal Library at F&M College was built 1937 - 38 in a Georgian Colonial Revival style. It was originally named the Fackenthal Library for Benjamin Franklin Fackenthal, Jr.
He was an iron-industry executive and was president of the college’s board of trustees. Also named for him were the former Fackenthal Laboratory (Patricia E. Harris Center) and the pool.
In 1983 the library was renamed the Shadek-Fackenthal Library after Arthur Shadek, a member of Board of Trustees and major donor to a library renovation.
The architect was W. H. Lee of Philadelphia. The contractor was David S. Warfel. Lee and Warfel also built the Keiper Liberal Arts building this same time.
This building has steel-frame construction with brick exterior and white wood trim. The portico’s triangular pediment features a festooned bas-relief medallion with sculpted portraits of the college’s two namesakes: Benjamin Franklin and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Wood pilasters flank the entry. Dogwood trees flower here each springtime.
460 College Ave. (Building #4 ) Lancaster, Pennsylvania