The east side of the 300 block of Roxboro consisted of apartment houses - as did much of the first few blocks of Roxboro north of Main St. 302 N. Roxboro, on the northeast corner of Roxboro and Liberty, 1963. These houses were torn down using urban renewal funds during the late 1960s. In 1976, the new main library building started construction, taking up the entire block bounded by Queen, Holloway, Liberty, and Roxboro.