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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called *Book Sniffers*, and we'd love to have this added to the group! -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

The Belmont Branch of the Richmond Pubic Library system was the first branch built after the Main Library. The branch is located at 3100 Ellwood Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond. The branch opened on October 25, 1956. It was expanded ten years later, with the expansion opening in 1966.

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It's still there... under the cladding of the present-day library on Franklin Street.

The Main Library of the Richmond Public Library was constructed in 1929-1930. The address is 101 E. Franklin Street in downtown Richmond. The current main library encases the original building shown here, with an addition built in the 1970's. Unfortunately, the original building was covered with a new facade that provides a unified architectural face to the building. July 19, 1930: The Dooley Library shown here opened to the public. Outside walls were of George Washington stone, quarried at Aquia Creek, Virginia. Within the building, the walls of the main front stair hall, stairway and the wainscot of the lobby (now the Dooley Foyer) are Italian Montanelle marble. The walls of the lobby (now the Dooley Foyer), above the wainscot, are of Italian Travatine. The total cost of the building was $543,000. Library staff moved 70,000 books and magazines from the old library building to the new one in just 3 days. December 15, 1930: Dooley Library dedication ceremony.

I'm surprised so many autos were around in a rural Florida town in 1909. I don't think autos were very common at that time, although that changed rapidly a few years later.