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OCT
31
Library, Southington, Connecticut
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OCT
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[LIB11171] - [Website]
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OCT
31
1924, George Maxwell Memorial Library, Rockville, Connecticut
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[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]
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OCT
31
Kent Memorial Library, Suffield, Connecticut
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31
[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]
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OCT
31
Plumb Library, Shelton, Connecticut
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31
[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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OCT
24
1909, Taylor Library, Milford, Connecticut
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24
[LIB11167] The Taylor Memorial Library building is now used as the home of the Milford Chamber of Commerce.
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OCT
24
Circulating Library, Litchfield, Connecticut
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[LIB11166] The Litchfield Library Association was founded in May of 1862 and in July of 1862 changed its name to the Wolcott Library in honor of a generous donation from J. Huntington Wolcott, grandson of Oliver Wolcott. The Wolcott Library was a reading room for members to browse newspapers, periodicals, books and reference materials. In June of 1870, the Litchfield Circulating Library was founded where members could borrow books to take home. In 1887, Mrs. Mary J. Buel became the first paid librarian. [Website]
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OCT
24
Edsel Ford Memorial Library, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
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24
[LIB11165] The original building was a gift in memory of Edsel Bryant Ford given by his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford, and their three sons: Henry Ford II '36, Benson Ford '38, and William Clay Ford '43. Designed by Henry S. Waterbury of Delano and Aldrich, the Edsel Ford Memorial Library opened in 1952. A major expansion and renovation, increasing the size of the library six times, was completed in 1981 under the direction of architect Evans Woollen '45. The first floor of the library was renovated in 1999 to provide a teaching and reference center combining print, microform, and digital resources. [Website]
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OCT
24
Library, Falls Village, Connecticut
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[LIB11164] Since its founding in 1891, the David M. Hunt Library has amply fulfilled the vision set by its founders, Mr. Hunt’s sisters Wealthy Ann and Catherine E. Hunt. These earliest and key benefactors had a vision: “that it be a house of learning fitted to the wants of our youth and the high purpose of promoting the intelligence and welfare of this community.” [Website]
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OCT
24
Library, Cornwall, Connecticut
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[LIB11163] The Cornwall Library Association was organized in the study of the Rev. E.C. Sanford, October 2, 1869. Minutes of that meeting record the adoption of a constitution and twenty-two articles, establishing both the purpose for the library and the rules by which it would operate. [Website]
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OCT
24
1907 Pequot Library, Southport, Connecticut
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[LIB11162] - Pequot Library is listed in the The National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. [Website]
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OCT
03
1912 Public Library, Norfolk, Connecticut
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OCT
03
[LIB11126] Mr. George Keller of Hartford was the architect for the building which first opened on March 6, 1889. At the time it was built, the structure went no farther than the north-south corridor of alcoves. The Great Hall, additional stacks, and the back alcove, also designed by Keller, were added in 1911, again the gift of Isabella Eldridge. [Website] This view is from the railway. Still in use as a public library.
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OCT
03
Public Library, New Milford, Connecticut
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03
[LIB11124] Mr. Egbert Marsh offered a lot on Main Street on which a building was erected in 1897. The reading Room opened on January 19, 1898, and the circulating library began operation on March 21, 1898. An addition was built in 1977 which incorporated the Goodman House. [Website]
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MAY
14
Library, Fairfield, Connecticut
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14
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APR
28
1908 Library, Sharon, Connecticut
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[LIB10999] Maria Bissell Hotchkiss and Bruce Price will forever be a part of Sharon history and be a part of the Historic Town Green. The former donated the library in 1893 and the latter was the prominent New York architect whom she chose to design the building. [Website]
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03
Library, Ansonia, Connecticut
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Russell Library, Middletown, Connecticut
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DEC
20
Hotchkiss Public Library, Sharon, Connecticut
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[LIB10266] - Maria Bissell Hotchkiss and Bruce Price will forever be a part of Sharon history and be a part of the Historic Town Green.The former donated the library in 1893 and the latter was the prominent New York architect whom she chose to design the building. [Website]
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NOV
08
1905 Chittenden Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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OCT
23
Maxwell Library, Rockville, Connecticut
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23
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OCT
17
1912 New Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut
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[LIB9952] Addressed to Mrs. R. V. Abercrombie, Bridgeport, Connecticut. The New Haven Free Public Library goes back to its original opening in 1887 in leased space in a building on Chapel Street. Having outgrown this location by the first few years of the twentieth century, a permanent building was constructed at the corner of Elm and Temple Streets. Built between 1908 and 1911, the building was designed by the prominent architect Cass Gilbert of New York, who had won the design competition. He created a Colonial Revival structure, set back from the street, that would harmonize with the early nineteenth century architecture nearby, including that of United Church on the Green. [Historic Buildings of Connecticut]
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JUN
04
Kent Memorial Library, Suffield, Connecticut
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04
[LIB9433] - Website Manchester, Suffield, Broad Brook iPod Touch Cases by davidrumsey See other iPod Touch accessories at zazzle.com.
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JUN
03
Library, Windsor, Connecticut
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JUN
03
[LIB9389] An undated vintage postcard published by Elm City Pub. Co., New Haven, Connecticut
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JUN
03
1959 The New Library, Hartford, Connecticut
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03
[LIB9388] - The completion of the New Hartford Public Library is the culmination of a long history which dates back to 1774 when Hartford's first library, called the Hartford Library Company, was formed. In its 182 years of existence the Library has had a variety of locations.
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MAY
02
Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut
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MAY
02
[LIB9016] “Gentlemen:–If the City of New Haven will provide a suitable site for it, I desire to erect and present to the City a handsome, fireproof building for the Public Library.” With these words, and a gift of $300,000, Mary E. Ives (Mrs. Hoadley Ives), became the founding mother of the present New Haven Free Public Library. The site, at the corner of Elm and Temple Streets where the Library stands today, was purchased by the city for $95,000. The architect, Cass Gilbert, designed the brick and marble building to harmonize with the traditional architecture of New Haven, and especially with the United Church nearby. The building was formally dedicated to the City of New Haven on May 27, 1911.[Website]
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