Goodnow Library

Goodnow Library
Goodnow Library
Location 21 Concord Rd., Sudbury, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′47″N 71°25′2″W / 42.36306°N 71.41722°WCoordinates: 42°21′47″N 71°25′2″W / 42.36306°N 71.41722°W
Built 1862
Architect Joseph R. Richards, et al.
Architectural style Romanesque, Octagon Mode
Governing body Local
NRHP Reference #

02000549

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Added to NRHP May 22, 2002

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.[1][2][3]

On May 22, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

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