Lynn Public Library
Lynn Public Library
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Location | Lynn, Massachusetts |
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Built | 1898 |
Architect | Moore,George A. |
Architectural style | Renaissance |
Part of | Lynn Common Historic District (#92000247) |
NRHP Reference # | 79000334[1] |
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Added to NRHP | August 21, 1979 |
Designated CP | April 10, 1992 |
The Lynn Public Library building is a historic library at 5 N. Common Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although library services were offered in Lynn as early 1815, it was not until a bequest in 1896 that the city began planning a permanent home for the growing collection. After some controversy, library trustees chose a Renaissance Revival design by local architect George A. Moore, who happened to be related to one of the library trustees. Controversy also attended the size and scale of the building, along with the removal of trees at its site on the town common. It was completed at a cost of $175,000, which included no public funding.[2]
Construction of the library began in 1898 and it was opened in 1900.[2] In 1900 the library commissioned the first mural of F. Luis Mora, a prominent Hispanic American artist. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,[1] and included in the Lynn Common Historic District in 1992.[2]
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See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts
References
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- Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts
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- Library buildings completed in 1898
- Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Buildings and structures in Lynn, Massachusetts
- Education in Lynn, Massachusetts
- Libraries in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Public libraries in Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Essex County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs