After the fire, a basement room at St. Mark's Lutheran Church was used as new, temporary quarters (which lasted three years), and then the library moved to 15½ E. Main St., a small room upstairs over a bar. Two years after the merging of Osborn and Fairfield to form Fairborn (1950), a bond issue of $75,000 was approved by the voters in 1952 to provide a building for the library.
Following a fire, St. Mark's Lutheran Church basement served as temporary quarters for the library for three years before relocating to a small room above a bar on E. Main Street.  In 1950, Osborn and Fairfield merged to form Fairborn, leading to a bond issue of $75,000 in 1952 to construct a new library building.