Groundbreaking Ceremony – July 19, 2025
Pictured: Mayor Ryan Schroeder, City Common Council, Library Board of Trustees, Delavan Aram Public Library Foundation (DAPLF), and Corporate Contractors Inc. (CCI) representatives. (Thank you to CCI for the image.)
Library Expansion design team (from left): Christy Monk, Lead Architect, FEH Design; Katherine Schoofs, Asst. Director/Youth Services Librarian; Michelle Carter, Director; Linda Zell, VP Board of Trustees; and Bob Betzer, President, Board of Trustees.
Pictured (from left): Library Board President Bob Betzer; Alderperson Matt Bieser; Alderperson Calvin Square; Walworth County Administrator Mark Luberda; Mayor Ryan Schroeder; City Administrator, Brian Wilson; City Finance Director, Nick Griffin; and Alderperson and Library Board Trustee Karen Sempf.
Official Groundbreaking Shovel presented by CCI.
Pictured: DAPLF President Wayne “Ozzie” Osborn; Mayor Ryan Schroeder; Library Board President, Bob Betzer; and Friends of the Library President, Terry Yanke.
Pictured: DAPLF Executive Board Members.
Pictured (from left, front row): Alderperson Calvin Square; Alderperson Matt Bieser; Mayor Ryan Schroeder; State Director for Rural Development in Wisconsin, Andrew Iverson; Alderperson Paul Wilson; (from left, back row) City Administrator, Brian Wilson; and, Alderperson Karen Sempf.
Pictured: Executive Director Delavan-Delavan Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Malinda Obershaw and Mayor Ryan Schroeder.
Pictured: Current library staff.
Pictured: Current and Previous Library Staff
Construction equipment readying the site.
Our youngest attendees received construction hats with the library’s logo.
Follow Our Expansion Project
Elevation change
Remember the elevator area at 404? Here's the view looking at the original elevator area and the accomodation of the site level to a one-floor library. Eventually, there will be a wall here with access on the other side for the Delavan Historical Society. A...
Perspective in the Discover Zone
Footings are in place for the Discover Zone! Here's a sense of the actual space viewing me, your library director within the area. The plumbing trenches have been completed and next week, electrical contractors will begin. Progress!
Clerestory pillars
Viewing the library build from 4th Street, you can just see the four large excavated areas which will accomodate the columns to support the clerestory. Clerestory: a series of windows admitting light. One of the goals of the project was to design for natural light to...
Mondays: Team Meeting
The behind-the-scenes Construction Team meets weekly on Mondays. The team consists of City of Delavan and Library employees along with team members from CCI and FEH Design. Each week, the group works through questions and the finer points of the project working...
Discover Zone
(Image, above) Viewing from inside the library expansion build, you can see the beginnings of the Discover Zone located in the youth department! The wall build has been taking place over several days and continues. Our contractors, CCI, are taking advantage of this...
Putting your best “footing” forward
View from Fourth Street - the excavated trenches can be seen in preparation for pouring of the footings.
The Connection
Hello world! Take a look at the image - this is the soon-to-be breezeway connecting the current library with the new expansion previously the south-parking lot entrance.
3-inch Stone
If you happen to go by the 404 Walworth Avenue construction site (you know who you are), you will see CCI has laid down 3-inch stone as a mud barrier and support for the large construction vehicles. This barrier, strengthens the site for equipment and aids in keeping...
View from the Circulation Desk
A space rendering by our architects, FEH Design. As we move through our expansion project, we'll share architectural renderings or "views" by our architects, FEH Design. You are viewing the expanded library space from the main service desk off of the 5th Street...
Meet Our Construction Team
Ben Maust (left) , CCI Project Manager and Christy Monk (right), FEH Design, VP, and Principal Architect are the leaders behind our renovation/expansionlibrary project. Ben Maust is an experienced Project Manager working in the construction industry. CCI is just...
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