Built 1862 Opened 1862 Phone +1 978-443-1035 | NRHP Reference # 02000549 Area 1 ha Added to NRHP 22 May 2002 | |
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Address 21 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA Hours Open today · 9AM–9PMThursday9AM–9PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PMSunday1–5PMMonday9AM–9PMTuesday9AM–9PMWednesday9AM–9PM Architectural styles Romanesque architecture, Octagon house Similar Acton Memorial Library C, Francis Buttrick Library, Cambridge Public Library, Concord Free Public Library, Newton Free Library Profiles | ||
The Goodnow Library is an historic public library building located at 21 Concord Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It is named for Sudbury-native John Goodnow II, who died in 1851 and left to the town of Sudbury a 3-acre (1.2 ha) site for a library, $2,500 to build it and $20,000 to buy books and to maintain it. Construction of the two-story octagon-shaped building began in 1862 and was finished in 1863. In the 1990s it was expanded to its present size, but the original octagon survives as a reading room.
On May 22, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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