The Mason Library, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

[LIB2418] Mason Library, called “the most beautiful library in America” was designed by Blanchard & Barnes of New York. Mary A. Mason, widow of Captain Henry Hobart Mason, left $50,000 to build and furnish a new library, to replace one in a clapboard house previously on the site. Mrs. Mason summered in Great Barrington and is buried there.

Dedicated July 24, 1913, the library was rededicated April 2007 after extensive renovations that doubled its size and made it handicapped accessible. [From the Website]

1960 Mason Library GREAT BARRINGTON MA

Great Barrington Public Libraries Website
View from a postcard postmarked at Sandisfield MA on 9 August 1960.

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A contemporary image from the Great Barrington Public Libraries website.