The outside of Sally and Ron Miller’s red brick home says “Free To All” at its front door…as it did when it was the Carnegie Public Library Fifth Street Branch in Superior, Minnesota.
Bought at auction at the very affordable price of $17,000, the Millers (a retired barber and nurse) moved from an apartment to the former library building about a dozen years ago and began to fix it up, sparing the library the fate of being divided up into apartments. The library’s large, five-sided oak and marble lending desk is still there. It’s no longer in the center of the 27-by-54-foot space but at one end. It’s staffed by a mannequin librarian, just one example of the couple’s whimsical touches.
Details of their renovation and the library-ish layout and decor in this story from Duluth News Tribune .
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