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7. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: <br />Condition --excellent good fair X deteriorated <br />ruins unexposed <br />Appearance --unaltered_ altered <br />Location --original site_ moved date <br />Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance, providing <br />dates for changes made to original appearance. Include photographs showing <br />overall property, main resource(s) from several angles, and details where <br />preservation work is. required. Include copies of historic photographs that <br />are available, to show property's appearance at earlier periods of history. <br />The City of Colton Public_Library retains the -same physical appearance as when <br />it was constructed in 1908. No alterations or additions have been made to the <br />building. <br />Until after World War II, when the growth of the Library made necessary the <br />occupation of the entire building by the library proper, the building itself <br />served the community in many ways. The Woman's Club met there from 1908 <br />through 1913. The Methodist Church, Boy Scouts, American Legion Presbyterian <br />Church, and the Red Cross have each in their turn made use of the basement <br />"Club rooms." There are residents of Colton who were married in the library <br />during its use as a church. On October 23, 1954, the Junior Library was <br />opened in the basement and the remaining area was occupied by periodical <br />storage. <br />The Library building has been unoccupied since January, 1982. <br />The Colton Area Museusn`Association, a California non-profit corporation, is <br />currently negotiating a lease agreement with the City of Colton to lease the <br />library building for the purpose of a museum. <br />13 <br />