• Allen Cox and Mr. Putnam were the men responsible for the architectural design of the Jones Library in downtown Amherst.
• Putnam and Cox were well known for architectural designing in Amherst, having laid out the design for the Lord Jeffery Inn, and many other buildings on Amherst College campus.
• The reason they built the Jones library was because of the size of their past library, which was only the size of a large room.
• What is it that made them choose the design they did for the Jones Library? The reason that Putnam and Cox made the design that they did was because of the fact that they wanted it to feel "homey" and not scare people away with a large, strange building. Another reason they built the Jones the way they did was because they wanted it to feel like "Mother Amherst inviting you into her living room," both homey and inviting!

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