• Source: Goodnow Library

      • 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 3-acre (1.2 ha) 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 1990s, the library was expanded to its present size, but the original octagon survives as a reading room.
      On May 22, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.


      See also


      National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts


      References




      External links


      Goodnow Library website
      Goodnow Library gallery
      Etching of the octagon library ca. 1888

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