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New Augusta Headquarters Library
The Augusta Public Library: Ground-breaking
for a new, exciting headquarters library in downtown Augusta is
expected soon.
The city of Augusta has been hoping and planning for this new library for
almost a decade. A committee of citizens selected the site and an
architectural firm noted for designing outstanding libraries has
finalized the plans.
You can help be part of the literary and
cultural future of Augusta by supporting your library. If you would
like to make a donation toward the building, mail a check made out
to Augusta Public Library, 902 Greene Street, Augusta, GA.
Design revision 05/01/2008
View from the south corner (James Brown Blvd
and Telfair St)
see
a larger version
here
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| View from the north corner
(James Brown and Greene); see a larger version
here |
Bird's eye view from the north
corner (James Brown and Greene); see a larger version
here |
FAQ:
Location: Telfair Street and James Brown Boulevard
Architect: Craig Gaulden Davis
Design Firm: Studio Three Design Group
Size: 90,000 Sq. Ft.
Groundbreaking: August/September 2008 (tentative)
Projected Completion Date: Summer 2010
CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Check back here from time to time to find
updated progress reports on the construction of the new Augusta
Headquarters Library.
Click on any photo to enlarge the view.
Photos by Saralynn
Ingram, ECGRL staff |
June 6, 2007
More deconstruction photos
The holes left by the removal of the Hollingsworth
building are being filled in (upper row) , and
the old Liberty Loan building is being removed (bottom row).
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Photos by Saralynn
Ingram, ECGRL staff |
April
17, 2007 Flat as a Pancake
The old Hollingsworth building
is gone! Flattened, and work begins to excavate the
basement area. |
Photos by Saralynn
Ingram, ECGRL staff |
March 7, 2007
Reduced to Rubble
The old Hollingsworth candy
factory is rubble and the old bankruptcy court building
is coming down. |
Photo by Saralynn
Ingram, ECGRL staff |
February 9 &
February 19, 2007
Snacking on Candy
A Komatsu 450 dinosaur and a smaller monster named Godzilla are
chewing down an old, abandoned candy factory clearing the site
for a new library in downtown Augusta. The new Augusta-Richmond
County headquarters library will be 90,000 square foot and is
scheduled to open in the summer of 2009. |
Photo by Bob Munger. |
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