PORT ANGELES — With only 90 days until Carnegie Library restoration work begins, officials are scrambling to come up with more World War I-era bricks.
“We are about 200 bricks short of a full load,” Clallam County Historical Society spokesman Frank Ducceschi said Wednesday.
The society is a lead organization in the preservation effort on the building currently boarded up next to Veterans Park on South Lincoln Street.
The city, in cooperation with Clallam County Historical Society and other groups, is preparing to restore the historic Carnegie Library building, which served as the city library until 1998.
“Wanted” posters have been distributed city-wide seeking photographs, information and bricks needed make the building look as it did in the early 20th century.
Project architect Stuart Bonney said the project requires 300 bricks, but only 100 have been collected.
The collected bricks are of varying quality, which means they were probably made locally by a small operation, sometime between 1915 and 1918, Bonney said.
So far, most of the bricks have been collected by “networking” among those interested in the restoration project, Bonney said.
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