Provincetown Public Library (old building)
| Provincetown Public Library | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The former library building, 1899 |
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| location | Provincetown , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 3 '9.4 " N , 70 ° 11' 6.8" W | ||
| Built | 1873 | ||
| Architectural style | Second Empire | ||
| NRHP number | [1] 75000248 | ||
| The NRHP added | April 21, 1975 | ||
The former building of the Provincetown Public Library in Provincetown in the state of Massachusetts of the United States was in the 1975 National Register of Historic Places entered.
description
The city library opened in this building on June 13, 1874 after it was donated to the city by its original owner, Nathan Freeman. As early as 1863, the Mayflower group had provided the Sons of Temperance with $ 300 (today approx. 6,000 dollars) for the opening of a public library and continuously increased these funds, so that at the time the building was constructed, 522.22 dollars (today approx Were available. In 1872 the city council also provided 25 dollars (today approx. 500 dollars) to purchase and bind the editions of the Boston Daily Advertiser for one year . The local dog tax was used to buy books for four years . When the library opened, it already had over 2000 books; In 1890 there were more than twice as many. In 2005 the library moved to the former Center Methodist Church, only a few meters away .
See also
literature
- Del Deo, Josephine: MHC Inventory Form. ( PDF ) Massachusetts Historical Commission, December 1976, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English, accessible via the "INV" button).
- Pfeiffer, Brian; Friedberg, Betsy: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. ( PDF ) National Park Service , December 1988, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved April 15, 2008.
- ↑ cf. Del Deo, p. 3.