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Emphasis Wednesday, November 10, 1982 Iowa City Press-Citizen Old library homes in needlepoint jjnjQaSSJ I I 11 mmm MtW 3 C.O.O. STERM LflUMOPV if I ii a VV. C.O.D. Steam Laundry By MARLENE J. PERRIN Emphuis Editor More than two years ago the lum Grove Chapter of the Em-roiderers' Guild of America de-ided they should do something for iwa City.

The chapter's president at the me, Ramona Stohlmann, suggest-d that they do something specially for the new Public Library. While the members were looking )r ideas, Jeanette Lynch men-ioned the project to her husband, any, an Iowa City city council-lan who had worked at the library Me he was in high school and col-sgesLynch suggested needlepoint epresentations of previous homes" of the library. The needlework organization iked the idea and began planning he project which now is displayed ehind the circulation desk at the ibrary. It took about two and a half ears to complete the planning, deigning, fund-raising and stitching, aid Jeanette Lynch, chairman for he project. Iowa City historian Irving Weber irovided basic information.

The irst city-owned library moved into uarters above the C.O.D. Steam sundry, now the Copper Dollar, in lanuary of 1897. The library re-. nained there through 1900. The library's second home also ras on the second floor this time it 214 E.

College St. above the Merchants Restaurant and a hard-rare store. That building, on part the site of the new library, loused Miller Monument Co. until was torn down. The Carnegie Library on Linn treet was dedicated Nov.

30, 1904. was built for $35,000. An addition 1962 was financed by a $265,000 iond issue. When those facilities were out-rown, the current building at Linn nd College streets was built, fin-need by a $3.5 million bond issue, 'he new library was dedicated unel4, 1981. Weber and Lolly Eggers, library lirector, assisted the Embroi-lerers' Guild in gathering pictures the old library buildings.

Carol rob, a member of the guild, took the chore of preparing the chart-d designs which could be followed iy the stitchers. "It was quite a job to establish he proportions," Krob said. There were a lot of eraser crumbs the table in the process." Each piece took several hours, he said. "The most difficult was he Carnegie building because ot ts intricate architectural fea-ures." Each building, however, present-id its own problems, she said. Pho-ographs of the old buildings, for xample, weren't very clear, liough the C.O.D.

building is still tending, much of its original trimming has been PreClttenJohn Riley Jeanette Lynch of Plum Grove Chapter of the needlepoint version of the old Carnegie build-Embroiderers' Guild of America and Carolyn ing in front of the real thing, vacant since con-Cavitt, chairman of the planning committee stniction of Iowa City's new Public Library, for the Iowa City Public Library, hold the depicted below in needlepoint. College Street library Mjaynwiiniiiii ummmmmammmimmmBmmmm Mnnwiji a building. The skylight now stands inside the. entry to the new building. Ramona Stohlmann did the stitching for the logo.

Last month all of the needlework pieces found a home behind the circulation desk. "We really appreciate the amount of time and skill that went into this project," said Eggers. The project was funded by Plum Grove Chapter and by Friends of the Library. guild began the stitching. Alice Kurtz worked on the C.O.D.

building. Jeanette Lynch did the College Street building, and Denise Wilcox worked on the Carnegie building. The present library was stitched by Ann Stranieri and Sherle Kasik. Added to the needlework project was the library's new logo, designed by Dick Blazek of the University of Iowa Foundation and based on the design in the stained glass skylight from the Carnegie. "Any time you are working from photographs, there is a certain amount of stylization involved," Krob said.

Another large task, undertaken by Lynch and Krob, was selecting the yarn. Krob said they spent at least two afternoons looking at yarns and selecting proper colors. For the current building, they even took yarn samples to the site to check accuracy of the colors. By January, members of the New library logo Schaper STOPPER HEET 4x4s FISHER-PRICE DOLLS Mandy, Jenny, Becky and AAikey. A.

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