Kalamazoo Public Library

The building was designed in the Romanesque Revival style, with several wings and towers filled with windows to capture natural light.

Designed by Louis C. Kingscott, Inc., and built by the Miller-Davis Company, the building opened in 1959, and combined the library and a museum.

In 1998, a new 4-story library building opened, which stands today at 315 South Rose Street in downtown Kalamazoo.

The library also offers computers for use by patrons for finding books, accessing the internet, playing games, and word processing.

In 2014, the library opened the 'Idea Lab', formerly known as 'The Hub', which is a digital media lab open to the public for digitizing photos and video, producing podcasts, preserving old vinyl records, cassettes and VHS tapes, and other services.

First library building in 1908
Walter Dean Myers speaks at KPL Central Library, August 6, 2013