What's Up with the Welwood Library Downtown?

There used to be a librarian sitting inside the entrance to the Welwood Library at the corner of Tahquitz and Palm Canyon in downtown Palm Springs

The Wellwood Library sounds like a great escape from the hustle and bustle of downtown Palm Springs, but it's never open. What's up with that?

The only news you can find about the opening of the Wellwood Library is vague, to say the least. The only other information we get about the library is on a nearby plaque:

By 1938 the City's incorporation issue was ready for a community referendum and residents voted in favor of incorporation. Just prior to the election the Library Board again contacted George Welwood Murray seeking to persuade him to donate the Tahquitz/Palm Canyon corner as a permanent public library site and memorial to his father. Community leaders Francis Crocker and Nellie Coffman were both in favor of theis gift and tried to sway Mr. Murray in his decision. Murray told Crocker that if incorporation passed and the City agreed to take permanent control of the Library's operations, and if the site would remain as a memorial to his father, he might be persuaded to donate the desire corner to the new City...

Wait...there is some information about a Save the Welwood Library at a website that details a 1980s lawsuit regarding the library. It's fairly convoluted and you'd need a lawyer sitting next to you to understand it.

Wouldn't it behoove the city to reopen the library. Now that the downtown plan regarding the property caddy corner to the library has been solved, the Welwood Murray Library reopening issue, if addressed, would get one more building occupied and filled with people.


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