Acton Memorial Library

Acton Memorial Library - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Acton Memorial Library is a public library at 486 Main Street in Acton, Massachusetts. In 1889 William Allan Wilde (1827-1902), a Sunday school publisher and philanthropistMelvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Library Journal, Volume 13, (1889), p. 353 who was a native of Acton, donated funds to construct the library to memorialize Acton's citizens who served in the American Civil War. The historic Romanesque Revival library building was constructed in 1890 by the architects Hartwell and Richardson of Boston and contractor, Charles H. Dodge. Large additions were constructed in 1967 and 1996. The library is part of the Minuteman Library Network. It is contributing property in the Acton Centre Historic District. Read more on Wikipedia

type: library
date from: 1890
official website: https://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org/

Source: en.wikipedia.org