Thanks to Edinburgh Evening News for the use of this article. Evening News, Tuesday, March 5th, 1940.
The first library and Nelson Hall, on the corner of Dundee Street and Murdoch Terrace, was a comparatively modest building of town main stories, but it was well patronised. By the mid-1930s, when the library was bursting at the seams, a decision was taken to demolish the building and erect a new library and Nelson Hall, more in keeping with local requirements.
The new branch in Dundee Street, Edinburgh, which is to be opened by the Lord Provost Henry Steele on Monday, takes the place of the old library and Nelson Hall opened in 1897. Of dignified design, the new building represents a depature from the usual library construction, and will carry a stock of from 25,000 to 30,000 volumes. The architect was Mr J. A. W. Grant. The elevations to Dundee street and to Murdoch Terrace are symmetrical and have been designed to admit the maximum amount of day-light. The carved panel over the entrance door at the front of the tower is the work of Mr C. d'O. Pilkington Jackson.The floor of the entrance hall along with the walls and balustrades of the stairway have been finished with terrazzo of contrasting colours.
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