To help ease the crowded conditions in the Carnegie Library Building, the City Council appropriated funds in 1928 for the rental of a second annex in the new Guymon building directly across the street from the library. In 1932 the library was asked to vacate the Guymon Building so that a new federal post office could be built on that corner. Colonel Ed Fletcher, one of a group of investors who purchased the Guymon building, had it moved to the northeast corner of Ninth and E Street and added a third story. The building was renamed the Fletcher-Lovett Building and housed the San Diego Public Library's Branch, Stations and Business departments on the first floor, Children's and Newspaper rooms on the second floor, and Catalog and Order departments shared on the third floor with employment offices for City Civil Service. Title supplied by cataloger.
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