On March 10, 2000, at 2 p.m. hundreds of people gathered as the doors were opened to the new Kendall-Whittier Library. The new 5,450-square-foot building, costing $775,000, houses 32,370 volumes. The R.T. Daniel meeting room, which seats 50, houses artist Shan Goshorn’s hand-painted historical photographs of the Kendall-Whittier area. The cupola from the original East Second Library graces the reading area.