Edmonds's first public library opened in 1901 with a rotating stock of books provided by the Washington State Traveling Library Committee. In 1909, Reverend Lockwood secured a $5000 Carnegie grant for a new library building, and the classic brick structure was dedicated on February 10, 1911. Its upper level housed books, while the lower level contained Edmonds city offices, meeting rooms, and jail cells. Children living across the street in the 1930's and 40's later remembered playing in the alley and daring each other to call out to the people in jail. After the library and city offices moved to larger quarters in 1962, the building became home to Edmonds Parks and Recreation Department. In the early 1970's, members of the newly formed Edmonds-South Snohomish Historical Society worked with the Mayor and City Council to save the building for a new historical museum, helping keep it among the 271 of the original 1,681 Carnegie Grant Libraries still in use. The Edmonds-South Snohomish Historical Museum opened in August of 1973. Edmond's log cabin was originally built in the 1930's on the Seaview Heights estate of Gaston Ganahl, who hired a builder experienced with Yellowstone National Park cabins to construct a hand-hewn Douglas fir log house from trees around the site. Its second owners, Lee and Dorie Hanley, donated it to the City of Edmonds in 1975. The 26-foot-tall cabin then made a 2-day move from Seaview to 5th and Bell in downtown Edmonds as utility crews disconnected and reconnected overhead wires. In 1990 it became the Edmonds Visitors Center, and after private donations raised more than $100,000 for repairs, a new foundation, and restoration, its survival into the new century was secured.