From Dave Brigham:
This is the former North Branch Library in Waltham, Mass., about which I know one thing, and about which I have one guess: the city has been trying to lease it out for the past seven years, and, most likely, some of the very kids who once borrowed books from this fine little institution have trashed the inside of this place.
Located next to the complex on Lexington Street where both a middle school and high school are located, the old library was most recently a teen center, and sits adjacent to the Chester Brook Corridor, which "consists of a sequence of properties under the ownership and control of various public and private entities," per the Waltham Land Trust. "Taken together, these properties form a continuous, though sometimes narrow, green space connecting the former Middlesex County Hospital lands with the Storer Conservation Lands surrounding [the Robert Treat Paine Estate]."
For more about this area of Waltham (and other parts), see March 20, 2017, "Brigham in Waltham, Part III."
The City of Waltham indicates that allowable uses for the property include a rooming house, a family day care, medical offices and a church, among others.
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