i visited charlottesville in va to see jerffersons UVA square design…road trips can take interesting turns if things are mentioned enough.
it wasn’t that long ago that Cary’s downtown library was the size of a postage stamp.
it was cringe, harking back to the sleepy outpost of Cary being way out in the middle of nowhere Western Wake County. So when there became an option to update/upgrade with all the other downtown Cary construction and improvements the town was making, it was much easier to do a new county library there vs make the case to create a library in a region of Wake that hasn’t had one.
Having said that, I’d love a library downtown Raleigh, but I have a feeling you’d mostly have the loitering Moore Square bus stop who aren’t riding anywhere, as the main library patrons. Maybe they’d pick up some life/occupational skills though if there were programs at a library, to help them raise themselves out of whatever funk they’re in that they just bum around and cause trouble at the bus garage area. Even with the new po-po station, it seems institutionalized over there to be a hotspot of crime.
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Chanced across this 1938 aerial view of Wake County. Can’t seem to open the TIF files, but it does seem like the “leafy neighborhoods” were pretty barren of trees then, and hence lack a “historic tree canopy.”
https://guides.lib.unc.edu/aerials/wake1938
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On a Windows machine, no problem unzipping the TIFs and opening them with the Paint app. One of the interesting things is the newly-completed straightening of what’s now Creedmoor Road in north Raleigh. You can clearly see the original curvy alignment between Strickland Road and what’s now called Millbrook Road (at the time, Leesville Road).
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