In the Architect’s Words
The Fargo Public Library’s design architects for the New Main Library are Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle of Minneapolis. This firm specializes in the design of libraries, including the US Senate Library, the new St. Cloud Public Library, the restoration of the St. Paul Central Library, and the addition to the Detroit Lakes original Carnegie library. Jack Poling, Jeff Mandyck, Traci Lesneski, and Greta Foster have been the primary architects and designers involved in the design process over the last three years.
MS&R has its own blog, and recently they posted an entry describing some of the concepts and materials that went into our New Main Library. You can read it here, and then let us know what you think by leaving a comment.
Steve Olson
April 20th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Could you post some historic pictures of the old Fargo Library? The one that was there in the 1970s. I went there weekly as a kid and I’d like to see pictures of it as it was in the 70s, inside and out. I recall a librarian moving a picture in the conference room between the children and adult sections and behind the picture was a plaque commemorating a visit from Richard Nixon while he was president. Of course in the late 70s Richard Nixon was disgraced from watergate, thus it was hidden.