Seattle's Biblio-Cathedral.

If I were a book, this would be my home. When I die, I hope heaven looks like this.

Here is a brief history of the downtown Seattle library. Around 1900, the original Carnegie Library was constructed on fourth avenue only to be razed in the early sixties to make way for an awful art-deco four story building that the city and patrons grew out of very quickly. I couldn't think of what was more depressing the low tiled ceilings, the tan-gray everything or the stale smell of old books and body odor.

This cathedral is everything that consitutes Seattle. It is a blend of the rejuvenating spirit that remakes Seattle and the Seattle landscape. You can almost smell the new money and hi-technology as you walk in the door. It is the epitomy of what the 1962 World's Fair tried to emulate when they projected the theme of "Century 21". At least we won't have to worry about Elvis riding up and down in the elevator's for this building to make history.