Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
🚧 The Hamline Midway Library transformation is in full swing! We're pouring concrete and Public Art Saint Paul is stamping sidewalk poetry, creating a vibrant space for the community. Want to stay in the loop? Check out sppl.org/transform to learn more and sign up for our newsletter. 📚✨
Exterior brick work is nearly complete, and the concrete patio and sidewalks will be finished soon. Permeable paving in the side alley and behind the library building, a sustainability feature designed to help with stormwater management, was completed in late October.
We are excited to be partnering with Public Art Saint Paul and their Sidewalk Poetry program, which “allows city residents to claim the sidewalks as their book pages.” Poems from their archive in Dakota, Hmong, Somali, Spanish, and English will be stamped into the sidewalks in front of and on the side of the library building, including the reading garden patio.
Next, you’ll see more of the building come together with the installation of curtainwall and metal panel. Interior walls, including the historic archway salvaged from the previous building, and ceilings will continue to go up through December as construction moves forward.
The library is expected to open by late 2026.
Learn more at sppl.org/transform
🚧 The Hamline Midway Library transformation is in full swing! We're pouring concrete and Public Art Saint Paul is stamping sidewalk poetry, creating a vibrant space for the community. Want to stay in the loop? Check out sppl.org/transform to learn more and sign up for our newsletter. 📚✨
Exterior brick work is nearly complete, and the concrete patio and sidewalks will be finished soon. Permeable paving in the side alley and behind the library building, a sustainability feature designed to help with stormwater management, was completed in late October.
We are excited to be partnering with Public Art Saint Paul and their Sidewalk Poetry program, which “allows city residents to claim the sidewalks as their book pages.” Poems from their archive in Dakota, Hmong, Somali, Spanish, and English will be stamped into the sidewalks in front of and on the side of the library building, including the reading garden patio.
Next, you’ll see more of the building come together with the installation of curtainwall and metal panel. Interior walls, including the historic archway salvaged from the previous building, and ceilings will continue to go up through December as construction moves forward.
The library is expected to open by late 2026.
Learn more at sppl.org/transform
