Rockingham Free Public Library | |
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43°07′51″N 72°26′41″W / 43.1308°N 72.4446°W | |
Location | Bellows Falls, Vermont |
Established | November 23, 1909 |
Architect(s) | McLean & Wright |
Collection | |
Size | 44,000 titles |
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Director | Ian Graham |
Employees | nine |
Website |
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Rockingham Free Public Library is one of four Carnegie Libraries in the state of Vermont. [1] The building, in Bellows Falls, Vermont, a village of Rockingham, Vermont, was designed by Boston architects McLean & Wright in Classical Revival style. [2] [3] The Carnegie grant was offered in 1905. The town took a while to decide on allocating matching funds. [4] The library officially opened on November 23, 1909. [3] A children's annex was added to the building in 1929. [5] In 2003 a new entryway and elevator were added for improved accessibility. [5]
Prior to this building being built, the Rockingham Free Public Library occupied a room in the lower floor of the town's opera house. [3] Before that, there was a subscription library founded on October 28, 1799, as the Rockingham Library Society. [3] The book collection moved around town occupying a room in the town's first high school, and a local drug store. [4]: 596 The town's first public library card was issued in 1888. [6]