1917 Carnegie Public Library, Winchester, Indiana

[LIB6857] Still in use a library, addition added.

1944 Public Library, Winchester, Massachusetts

[LIB6104] - The Winchester Public Library was founded in 1858, and the present building was constructed in 1931, at a cost of $137,000. Designed by architects Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley, the Library's English Norman exterior is of rough-faced Massachusetts granite with joints of dark mortar and trim of cut limestone. The building's innovative design, combining both an art gallery and library, was featured in the June, 1932, issue of The Architectural Forum.

An addition to the building, designed by Kilham, Hopkins, Greeley and Brodie, was completed in 1966. It provided for a larger reading and reference room, an enlarged children's room, a workroom, and increased storage capacity. [Website]

Handley Public Library, Winchester, Virginia

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Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pennsylvania left $250,000 in his will to “ . . . open a Public Library for the free use of the people of the city of Winchester forever.” The Handley Trustees hired architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York who designed the building in Beaux-Arts style. The Handley Library opened in 1913 at a cost of $233,230.28 for the building and furnishings. An addition was added to the building in 1979 and a complete renovation, designed by Dennis Kowal Architects, was completed in 2001. [Thanks to the Handley Regional Library, www.hrl.lib.state.va.us]

Handley Library, WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA

Handley Trustees hired architects Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York who designed the building in Beaux-Arts style. The final cost of the building and furnishings in 1913 was $233,230.28. Five Reproductions of Architectural Drawings, ca. 1906, of The Handley Library are available for purchase, click here!

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