Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-15
Strike HAPPY MEDIUM
Council and Library Trustees
Come to an Agreement on
Library Site.
Plans So Arranged That Carne.
gle Building Will Be 75x9O
Feet on Corner.
Room Left for a City Building on
Center Street."A Corner
Entrance.

A happy medium has been agreed
TO between the library trustees and
the city council relative to the site for
the Carnegie building, and the best So
luton of the disagreement over the
exact site has been reached. The Ii
brary building has been given the cor
ner of the city lot, with q space sew
enty-five feet on Center street by
ninety on State street, thus leaving
siXty-five feet on Center street for a
city building. when one is erected
Architect Grant c. Miller, of the firm
of Patton & Miller, of Chicago, who
has been employed to prepare the
plans for the library. assisted ma
terially in the solution of the diff
Guilty.
BY making the entrance to the IL
brary building at the corner of the
structure, the building will in reality
front on both Center and State streets,
with the longest side on State. This
plan will allow light ON The four sides
of the library. and permit of parking
ten feet in width on both State and
Center street. The plans We're ade-
quate and permitted of such beauti-
full structure that when the council
men found there would be plenty of
room on Center street for the city
building the ideas We're agreed to al
once.
The councilmen, the mayor, the IL
brary trustees and Architect Miller
looked over the ground Friday after
noon and discussed the question in all
its phases. A meeting was then ar
ranged for the evening at the library
rooms. In the afternoon Mr.. Kreutzer
and one or two others agreed TO give
the library seventy feet on Center
street, but when the matter was fur
Their discussed at the evening meeting
all of the councilmen, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Kreut2er, who was not
present. agreed to add five feet more.
They went on record to that effect,
and when the question is formally
considered at the meeting Monday
night 1t will stand.
The corner entrance idea will enable
the most beautiful plans yet suggested
to be drawn and followed out. While
the exact design and arrangement has
not yet been agreed to- by the trustees
all. favor the general idea submitted
by Mr.. Miller. The two story and
basement library will be built of stone.
The interior plan suggested, and which
will probably be agreed to, calls for
an entrance hall with winding stair
way. On the first floor the delivery
room will open from this hallway.
and here the delivery desk will be To-
Gated. Back of this will be the stack,
or book. room, with diverging shelves
to accommodate $4,000 volumes. On
the left of this, or fronting on Center
street, Will be the children's reading
room and the librarian and trustees
room. The librarians desk will be so
arranged that a general view can be
obtained by her of all the rooms.
On the Second floor on the Center
street side. will be a lecture room with
a seating capacity of 200. On the
art room and also the custodian's
room. In the basement will be stor-
age rooms for the government docu-
ments and reports, the heating plant,
etc.
Temporarily the new fire house will
occupy portion of the city's remain
ing land on Center street, but when
a city building is erected this will. If
the present councils plans are followed
out, be moved to the alley in the rear,
with a frontage on State street. The
present arrangement gives ample
room. with some parking. for all these
buildings, and is satisfactory to all