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Revere Public Library

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Revere Public Library
Revere Public Library in 2013
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42°24′29″N 71°00′33″W / 42.40804°N 71.00919°W / 42.40804; -71.00919
Location179 Beach Street
Revere, Massachusetts
TypePublic library
EstablishedNovember 18, 1903
Other information
Websitereverepubliclibrary.org

The Revere Public Library is a municipal public library in Revere, Massachusetts. It is a member of the North of Boston Library Exchange. The library is an example of a Carnegie library.[1] The current building sits on the corner of Beach Street and Library Street.

History

The first library in what is now the City of Revere was known as the Chelsea Social Library.[2] The exact date and location of the original library is uncertain, although it was established some time between 1825 and 1830. The bulk of the collection of this library was donated by Rev. Joseph Tuckerman and the Cary family. On April 5, 1840, it was decided in a town meeting that the Chelsea Social Library would be relocated to the town hall, which was itself built only five years earlier, on Broadway and Pleasant Street, in 1835.[3]

The Old Town Hall, as it was to become known, burned to the ground on January 19, 1897. Of a collection of 5313, about two thousand books were water damaged. What remained was moved to the Sherman Hannah block on Broadway. The library was closed for about a month after the fire and was relocated to the basement of the new town hall.[3]

A year before the destruction of the Old Town Hall, in 1896, the Revere Women's Club had begun a fund for the erection of a public library building. Samantha Sparhawk, president of the club, met with Andrew Carnegie during a family vacation in Europe. In conjunction with Ernest H. Pierce, editor of the local newspaper, the Revere Journal, they procured a gift of $20,000 from Carnegie. The donation was officially accepted at a town meeting on November 11, 1901.[3]

The current building was built in 1902[3] and officially opened on November 18, 1903. It is representative of the Georgian Revival and American Renaissance styles of architecture and is one of few Carnegie libraries to have never been expanded.[4]

At its founding, the library received a number of gifts. These included a marble drinking fountain from Theodore Grover, a stained glass window from the Current Events Club of Beachmont, and a pair of andirons from Warren Fenno.

Harriet Tewksbury Fenno, who began as an assistant librarian in the Old Town Hall in 1881, became head librarian with the library's expansion in 1891 and served in this position for thirty-seven years, until her death on May 26, 1928. She was succeeded by Nina E. Cross.[3]

References

  1. ^ "New England Carnegies: Revere Public Library". www.necarnegies.com. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  2. ^ Craig, William J. (2004). Revere. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-3671-2.
  3. ^ a b c d e "The history of the town of Revere as compiled by Benjamin Shurtleff". HathiTrust. hdl:2027/wu.89067489252. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  4. ^ "About". Revere Public Library. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
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