Pictured are, from left to right, Chairman of the Nashville Public Library Board Charles Clay Trabue, Jr., Metro Mayor Beverly Briley, Mrs. Nellie Jackson Estes, and former Mayor Ben West. Mrs. Estes was present at the original groundbreaking of the Carnegie Library of Nashville in 1903, which the new facility replaced. Administered under the new Metropolitan Government, the library was dedicated on January 16, 1966; it was named the Ben West Library on June 5, 1977 in memory of Mayor Ben West. Designed by the architectural firm of Taylor & Crabtree, Inc., this downtown main library served the public from 1963 until 2001.
