A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . brary. In the ten years following the opening of the library, two removalswere necessitated by its rapid giowth. In 1879, it was removed tothe second and third floors of the former Central High School build-ing where it was, for twenty-one years, the guest of the Board ofEducation, the offices of which occupied the first floor. This building,on Euclid Avenue near East Ninth Street, was torn down in 1901to make room for the present Citizens Building. After a shortsojourn in the City TTnll. the lilirai
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . brary. In the ten years following the opening of the library, two removalswere necessitated by its rapid giowth. In 1879, it was removed tothe second and third floors of the former Central High School build-ing where it was, for twenty-one years, the guest of the Board ofEducation, the offices of which occupied the first floor. This building,on Euclid Avenue near East Ninth Street, was torn down in 1901to make room for the present Citizens Building. After a shortsojourn in the City TTnll. the liliraiy was moved to its first separate Vol. I—JT 418 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXIII building, the temporary Main Library at 1443 East Third work burst the bounds of these quarters and overtiowed intotwo or three neighboring buildings; so, in 1913, the library made itsfifth hegira and now occupies the fifth and sixth floors of the Kinney& Levan Building, 1375-1385 Euclid Avenue, whence the next removewill be into its permanent home, a dignified and beautiful Central Li-. JlUiAliV Jli:iLl>l.\(.; OF 1879 brary, as yet unlmill. hur jinivided for by the $2,000,000 bond issuevoted by the citizens of Cleveland in 1912. The building of this Central Library has necessarily been post-poned probably until the terrniiuition of the war, for the reason that the$2,000,000 appropriation on which the plans of Walker & Weeks, thesuccessful competing architects, were based, is now inadecjuate to cover 1!)181 Till-: PUBLIC LliiKAKY 419 tlio cost of the proposed Imililiiifr. This library building is to he apart of the eitys group plan, and will be loeated on the site of theold City Hail on Superior Avenue at East ihinl Street, on a linewith the Federal Hnildiiiir and loliowing the same general arehi-teetural style. The present Main Library, with its eollection of nearly :i()().000volumes, is the direet outgrowth of the little Inblie Seiiool Libraiy of12,200 volniues, but it is o
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