Designs for Carnegie Library in Xenia include cafe, event house

Walker and her colleagues, developer Dan Mayer and architect Andrew Johnson approach to restore the creating, including its intricate stained glass ceiling, and convey it up to code. At the time that renovation is entire, Walker’s catering organization, O’Neals, will move into the developing, and the key ground will convert to an celebration venue, as well as a restaurant of the very same title, serving the “healthy variation of southern convenience food stuff,” she claimed.

Built in 1904, the Carnegie Library was the central library in Greene County right up until the Xenia department on Current market Road opened in 1978. The library was stated on the Countrywide Sign-up of Historic Places in 2015, following a grassroots hard work to preserve the making from demolition. Greene County owned the library considering the fact that 1997.