Welwood Murray Memorial Library - Palm Springs, CA
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N 33° 49.376 W 116° 32.800
11S E 541950 N 3742615
A historic library in Palm Springs, California.
Waymark Code: WM16Q85
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/15/2022
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About the Place:
The plaque says, "In 1938 George Welwood Murray donated this land to provide for a library as a memorial to his father, Welwood Murray, pioneer hotel operator. Cornelia white donated an additional strip of property on the eastern end of the site. The existing structure, designed by John Porter Clark and constructed by Charles Chamberlin, opened as the first permanent home of the Palm Springs Public Library in February 1941. With the completion of the Library Center at Sunrise Plaza in October 1975 the Welwood Murray Memorial Library became the downtown branch."
About the Person:
Taken from the link, "Murray, a pioneer of Palm Springs, ca.1901
presents an elderly Dr. Murray walking through a dilapidated wooden gate in Palm Springs. He wears a cardigan and Scottish beanie and stands between two thick tree trunks.
"Dr. Welwood Murray, who came to Palm Springs in 1886, was so impressed with the curative powers of the sun there and the unusually dry climate that he established a sanitarium. Later he began to take in a few 'boarders,' in addition to those who came seeking health, and the sanitarium became, in a sense, a hotel, though it was not until 1909 that the first real hotel was established by Mrs. Nellie N. Coffman."
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