Seattle Public Library, Down But Not Out
From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: This week’s random article comes from the Jan. 5, 1901 issue of The Ballard News, published at a time when Ballard was an independent incorporated city. But the news itself is actually about Seattle, and the almost total destruction of the Seattle Public Library by fire on the evening where 1900 turned into 1901. According to John Douglas Marshall’s book, Place of Learning, Place of…