Juxtaposition

These 19th century beauties that were once the homes of prominent citizens are now museums located on Adams just a bit east of Danny Thomas Blvd. Most Memphians are very familiar with them yet...

just twenty feet across the street from them you will find this:
I really don't know why the horse statue is there (and I'm sure that's quite a story)

I bet the people who decided to attach this monstrous structure in 1959 to the original Cossitt Library which is still at Front St. and Monroe, can tell us how and why these things happen.

The original Cossitt Library completed in 1893. Architecturally a far cry from the "addition" I would say. I wish I could have been in the room when the architects were working this one through back in '59.

The back of the original library is still there. This library is one of five that is scheduled to be closed down this summer. I don't know what the future holds for it but whatever it is it has to be better than it's last makeover.