Built 1910 (1910) Opened 1910 Added to NRHP 27 December 2010 | NRHP Reference # 10001086 Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture | |
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Location 3 Main St., Alstead, New Hampshire Similar Conant Public Library, Minot‑Sleeper Library, Abbie Greenleaf Library, Oscar Foss Memorial Library, Gordon‑Nash Library Central Li | ||
The Shedd-Porter Memorial Library, located at 3 Main Street, is the public library of Alstead, New Hampshire. The library building was a gift to the town from John Graves Shedd and Mary Roenna Porter, and is a Beaux Arts building built in 1910 to a design by William H. McLean and Albert H. Wright. Shedd also donated 2,000 books to the library, whose collection now exceeds 10,000 volumes.
The library building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
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