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The Halifax Central Library is a public library in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.It is located on the corner of Spring Garden Road and Queen Street in Downtown Halifax.It serves as the flagship library of the Halifax Public Libraries, replacing the Spring Garden Road Memorial Library.
The new Halifax Central Library on the corner of Spring Garden Road and Queen Street forms a new locus of activity on a site that had previously been a surface parking lot for over five decades. In 2021 the Halifax Regional Municipality undertook a major upgrade of the Street from South Park to Queen street, widening sidewalks and burying ...
The Halifax Central Library branch can trace its roots to a feasibility study written in 1987. In 2008, the HRM Council approved funding in principle to support construction of a Central Library. Seven years later the Spring Garden branch closed permanently on 30 August 2014 and was replaced by the Halifax Central Library across the street. [20]
Nova Scotia Supreme Court sat for the first time in the newly built Halifax County courthouse on Spring Garden Road in October 1860 and continued using it until 1960 when the building temporarily became the Provincial Library and then the home of the Provincial Court in 1971. The most recent renovations to the building were completed in 1985.
The Library closed in 1949 reopening as a part of the new Halifax Memorial Library on Spring Garden Road at Grafton Street in 1950, though the collection moved in 2014 to Halifax Central Library. [8] The space formerly occupied by the library is now split between the office of the Mayor and the CAO.
The new Halifax Central Library on Spring Garden Road has received accolades for its architecture and has been described as a new cultural locus, offering many community facilities including a 300-seat auditorium.
[tone] Downtown Halifax is similar to other central business districts where it has many varied crosswalks, hills, paths, and sidewalks. Spring Garden Road is a street approximately 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in total-length that goes in an east-west direction from Barrington Street-to-Robie Street.
Bud the Spud is an iconic chip truck in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] In operation since 1977, it is parked outside the Spring Garden Road branch of the Halifax Public Libraries each summer until 2024 when another food vendor won the spot with a higher bid.