This post is sentiment more than photography. I grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts. This is the town library, where my mother was a librarian.
George Peabody, a banker and philanthropist, also grew up in Danvers. In 1856 Peabody made a grant to the town to establish in Danvers a branch of the Peabody Institute Library that he had earlier funded in the adjoining town of South Danvers (now named Peabody).
In 1866, Peabody made an additional and larger grant, allowing the Danvers branch to become independent and to build a new library building in 1869.
That is a grand building for a library. My wife was a librarian for many years, and I still use the services of our local library so books don't pile up at home.
ReplyDeleteA handsome building! What a place to work! My heart is still broken by my hometown's "city fathers" demolishing the handsome and imposing Carnegie Library circa 1970. The story was it was too expensive to repair and bring up to date. Well, the population wasn't' 20,000, so I suppose some creative work needed to be done to keep it. I was away during that time, moved back later and still mourn every time I drive by the replacement flat-roofed windowless 60's style building. I suppose we're lucky to still have a library. And now there is a great librarian who has livened things up.
ReplyDeleteI fine library building.
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