Winn Memorial Library
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| Woburn Public Library | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | Woburn, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1879 |
| Architect: | Richardson,Henry Hobson; Norcross Brothers |
| Architectural style(s): | Other, Romanesque |
| Designated as NHL: | December 23, 1987 |
| Added to NRHP: | November 13, 1976 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 76000290[1] |
| Governing body: | Local |
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The Winn Memorial Library is a public library designed by noted American architect H. H. Richardson. It is located at 45 Pleasant Street, Woburn, Massachusetts, and is now a National Historic Landmark.
The library was built between 1876-1879 as the first of Richardson's series of library designs and in it he established his characteristic, asymmetrical plan for such buildings: an entrance and reception, usually with staircase tower; the reading room(s) with stacks; and an optional art gallery.
The library's front facade presents a long, single-story stack area (at left), with high, column-separated windows forming a strip below the peaked roof; a projecting, three-story set of reading rooms with entryway and High Victorian tower at center right; and picture gallery and octagonal museum at the right side. The facade is formed of brownstone with lighter stone trim, arranged in polychrome over the main arches, accented with a red tile roof.
A statue of native son and notable scientist Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, rises from the main lawn before the library.
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- GreatBuildings page
- ArchiPlanet page
- Carolyn Pitts, "NHL Architecture Theme", in CRM Bulletin, Cultural Resources Management, A National Park Service Technical Bulletin, Volume 10: No. 6, December 1987.
- Margaret Henderson Floyd, Architecture After Richardson: Regionalism Before Modernism, University of Chicago Press, 1994, page 192. ISBN 0226254100.
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