Detroit News archive

Built with city bonds on land donated by the McGregor family, the new McGregor Public Library opened in 1926. W. Hawkins Ferry, Detroit's leading architectural critic, described the McGregor Library as one of the most important classically inspired buildings in metropolitan Detroit. A landmark on Woodward for nearly 80 years, in 2003 it was closed and its contents put into storage because the roof leaked and the city lacked money to make repairs.