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Minneapolis Public Library, Central Branch (#2471)
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picture date: 2002-10-27 (email to request a print)
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- A History of Minneapolis
An overview by staff at the Minneapolis Public Library
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Former resident Gulf coast -- 2003-03-30
This library was new when I was a kid, so it isn't that old. Why tear it down?? They'd better think twice, because with the economy so bad, they may not eventually get around to building another!
PS: I guess its architecture seemed cheerful compared to earlier stuff. It was always a strange looking place, but it had a great basement museum and a planetarium.
Christopher La Londe Washington DC -- 2003-07-10
I can remember the downtown library before this building was built. It was, as I remember it, an old Victorian styled building with marble stairs as you entered. It had an old elevator with flexible wrought-iron doors.
As you came into the library there was a large crab from somewhere in the south seas and a glass encased mummy.
The new replacement library was exactly that, nice and new, but it lacked the charm and mystery of the old building. The fact that someone thinks it time for a new one makes me feel very, very, old.
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