George Dahl’s Downtown Public Library Is Now the Home of The Dallas Morning News
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
Today is the official beginning of the next step in the history of the George Dahl-designed building at Commerce and Harwood which once housed the Dallas Public Library: after years of abandonment and deterioration, it is now the miraculously preserved and spiffed-up home of The Dallas Morning News! Read Robert Wilonsky’s valentine to the beautiful building — along with photos old and new — on the News site, here.
And while we’re at it, let’s look back to the beginnings of the building as the wonderfully modern Dallas Public Library in one of my very first Flashback Dallas posts, “George Dahl’s Sleek Downtown Library — 1955,” here.
Thank you, DMN, for saving and resuscitating this landmark Dallas building!
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Be interesting to know the layout of the departments in the building.
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I remember that building when it housed the Dallas Public Library’s Central Library. I recall fondly spending many a day browsing its musty shelves.
I was lucky that a Pleasant Grove-bound bus stopped just a block away which made it convenient for me since my parents couldn’t take time to drive me there and back.
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oh cool , i never knew that
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