Rejected plans for Hawick Library, submitted by Alexander Gardener in 1906.
The building we know today was designed by John Nicholl Scott and Alexander Lorne Campbell of Edinburgh (who also designed the Boer War Memorial in Wilton Lodge Park), following a design competition assessed by local architect John James Burnet.
Forty-two entries were submitted and in November 1901 the assessor’s report was submitted to the Town Council for consideration. Mr Burnet awarded his first choice to ‘Quex’, although the council refused to divulge the names of the winning architects, instead passing the matter to a committee for further consideration. 
On 6th December, the journal ‘British Architect’ recorded that Hawick Town Council had decided to adopt the design marked ‘Teviot’ by Mr Scott of Scott and Campbell, 44 Queen Street, Edinburgh.
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