{"id":177,"date":"2016-10-06T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/?p=177"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T17:18:42","slug":"ilah-dunlap-little-memorial-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/ilah-dunlap-little-memorial-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilah Dunlap-Little Memorial Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/10\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-178 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/10\/Untitled-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ilah Dunlap-Little Memorial Library\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/10\/Untitled-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/10\/Untitled-144x108.jpg 144w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/10\/Untitled.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ilah D<a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/10\/Untitled.jpg\">unlap-Little (1873 \u2013 1939) of Macon Georgia, willed nearly half a million dollars to the University of Georgia for \u201cthe cherished idea\u201d of her and h<\/a>er husband, John D. Little \u2013 a new library. It is a memorial to her father, Samuel Scott Dunlap; her mother, Mary S. Dunlap; her brother, Samuel Scott Dunlap, Jr.; and her husbands, Leonidas A. Jordan and John D. Little. Mrs. Dunlap directed that it be built with red brick, surrounded by columns, and sit on the site occupied by the Chancellor House. She also directed family portraits and certain furnishings be placed in the library. However, with a special court order, Mrs. Dunlap\u2019s belongings were placed in the Lustrat House, which was renamed the Ilah Dunlap- Memorial Library Annex, because the trustees deemed the library too contemporary. The Ilah Dunlap Memorial Library was dedicated on November 19, 1953 and holds a 700,000 volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilah Dunlap-Little (1873 \u2013 1939) of Macon Georgia, willed nearly half a million dollars to the University of Georgia for \u201cthe cherished idea\u201d of her and her husband, John D. Little \u2013 a new library. It is a memorial to her father, Samuel Scott Dunlap; her mother, Mary S. Dunlap; her brother, Samuel Scott Dunlap, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/ilah-dunlap-little-memorial-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ilah Dunlap-Little Memorial Library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}