Library Murder on the Orient Express

Oh, they shut down the mighty Donnell library, where we used to research term papers in the eighth grade*, to make room for a boom-era hotel owned by Orient-Express Enterprises Incorporated LLC. Now the economy’s gone all bust and the hotel is high-tailin’ it back to the Orient Asia. So what now? The original plans called for a scaled-back mini-library, from 42,000 square feet of public space to 19,000.

What will become of the gutted building? Affordable housing? Archive-style lofts? Spiraling Skyscraper Farms?

Inside, a dust-up of historic pooh-portions, and the most adorable photo of an old doll you ever did see.

*100 note-card minimum, and oh, they had old copies of Playboy at periodicals circulation!