[LIB11173] - No longer used as a public library. [Website]
Friday, October 31, 2014
Thomaston Library, Thomaston, Connecticut
[LIB11172] - 1900-1901 - Randall T. Andrews, an incorporator of the Laura Andrews Free Library Association, offers a site on his property on Grand Street for "the erection of a building thereon for the purpose of a library." (Deed, May 20, 1901). Architects, Griggs and Hunt of Waterbury, Connecticut and New York City design a library building for a total cost of $6,571.00 [Website]
1924, George Maxwell Memorial Library, Rockville, Connecticut
[LIB11170] - The Latin inscription over the circulation desk, Ex hoc fonte illa quae summa haurimus, translates, "We draw the greatest things from this source.." [Website]
Kent Memorial Library, Suffield, Connecticut
[LIB11169] - Kent Memorial Library is fortunate to house a number of primary sources that give an intimate glimpse to the past. The intent of this digital library is to digitize the material that is of interest and is still in good enough condition to handle safely. The focus for the short term will be on diaries, daybooks, and account books. [Website]
Plumb Library, Shelton, Connecticut
[LIB11168] In the winter of 1891, David Wells Plumb, a successful Shelton businessman, chaired a meeting of city residents who voted to establish a public library. The residents raised nearly $2,000 at that meeting, and in October 1892 they voted to appropriate a three-quarter-mill tax toward the library’s support. They also appointed six people as Library Directors, with Plumb serving as Library President. [Website]
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