Goodnow Library

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location= 21 Concord Rd., Sudbury, Massachusetts
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 21
lat_seconds = 47
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 25
long_seconds = 2
long_direction = W
locmapin = Massachusetts
area =
built =1862
architect= Joseph R. Richards, et al.
architecture= Romanesque, Octagon Mode
added = May 22, 2002
governing_body = Local
refnum=02000549cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] 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 convert|3|acre|m2|sing=on 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 1890s it was expanded to its present size, but the original octagon survives as a reading room.cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] [ [http://www.sudbury.org/townof.html History of Sudbury, MA - Part IV] ] [ [http://www.sudbury.ma.us/mapnav/images/goodnow.pngFloor plan of present library showing octagon] ]

On May 22, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

References

External links

* [http://www.town.sudbury.ma.us/services/department_home.asp?dept=Library Goodnow Library website]
* [http://www.town.sudbury.ma.us/services/photo_spotlight.asp?dept=Library Goodnow Library gallery]
* [http://www.sudbury.ma.us/services/infosys/custom/historic1880-89/gallery.htm Etching of the octagon library ca. 1888]