The city of Lawrence will host an open house on Jan. 8 at the recently renovated Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St.

The open house, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., will allow people to view the restored building before the Convention and Visitors Bureau and Destination Management Inc. begin moving their offices into the garden level of the building.

Exhibits for the upper level of the building are being created, and once those are complete a formal building dedication will be held, likely in the spring.

The building, which was constructed as a Carnegie Library, later was home for 27 years to Lawrence Arts Center until it moved to 940 N.H. in 2002.