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Article: Uphams Corner library plans shelved City sides with clinic in battle over building
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 6, 1996
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For more than 25 years, the city of Boston has been planning to
replace the Uphams Corner branch of the Boston Public Library, which
is crowded into two rooms with the children's section in an old
basement swimming pool.
And so four years ago, when a nursing home in Uphams Corner closed
and the city took it over, residents here began campaigning for the
conversion of the three-story brick building into the long-promised
library.
Unfortunately for them, one of the city's newly powerful
constituencies had other plans for the building.
This spring, over the opposition of five area neighborhood
associations, the city sold the old Martin Nursing Home to the Uphams
Corner Health Center, which ...