Latter Memorial Library

Poised elegantly above shady strands of palm on St Charles Ave, the Latter Memorial Library was once a private mansion residence, passed along from the Isaac family (owners 1907–12), who installed Flemish-style caved woodwork, Dutch murals and French frescoed ceilings, to aviator Harry Williams and his silent-film–star wife, Marguerite Clark (1912–39), to a local horse racer named Robert S Eddy, then finally, in 1948, to the Latters. The latter (sorry) converted the mansion into its current form as a library. The bottom floor and the entire exterior facade remain as stately as ever.