Carow · Architects · Planners designed the 50,000 square
foot Portage County Public Library located in the Main Street Historic
District of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The new library reuses and integrates
historic building into the project. The buildings built between 1872 and
the turn of the century contain administrative spaces and the meeting
room, located in a former commercial space, designed to recreate the period
of the original buildings with the reuse of bronze Carnegie doors and
transom panel from the former library, restored lead glass windows, and
a replication of the original tin ceiling.
Also included on
this project was restoration of leaded glass windows, reproduction of
sheet metal details, stabilization of limestone ornaments, erection of
all new interior structure, and underpinning and bracing of existing masonry
walls. The project preserves and restores five building facades in one
of the most complete and intact sections of history in the Midwest.
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