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词条 Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
释义

  1. Architecture and history

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox NRHP
| name =Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
| nrhp_type =
| image = Boothbay_Harbor_Memorial_Library_2003.jpg
| caption = The library in 2003
| location= State Route 27, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
| coordinates = {{coord|43|51|6.12|N|69|37|41.91|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Maine#USA
| added = April 18, 1977
| area =
| architecture = Greek Revival temple
| governing_body = Town of Boothbay Harbor
| built= {{start date|1842}}
| refnum=77000077[1]
}}Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library is the public library of Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, Maine. It is located at 4 Oak Street, in an architecturally significant Greek Revival building constructed as a private residence in 1842. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1] The building also serves as a war memorial to the town's soldiers of the First World War.[3]

Architecture and history

The library building is a multi-section wood frame building, with gabled roof lines and clapboard siding. Its most prominent feature is a tetrastyle Greek Revival temple front, with four fluted Doric columns supporting a broad entablature and a fully pedimented triangular pediment, with a louvered fan at its center. The building corners at the back of this front feature paneled pilasters, and the center entrance is framed by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by an entablature. Ells extend the building to the right side.[2]

The library building was built as a private home in 1842.[2] For whom it was built is unclear: the library claims that it was built for William Maxwell Reed,[6] while the preparers of its National Register nomination claim it was built for Cyrus McKown, a prominent local businessman, and sold to Chapman Reed in 1873.[2]

The town's first free library was established in 1906, and occupied rented quarters until the town approved funding to acquire the Reed house, which it purchased in 1923.[2][3] The building was remodelled for use as a library by the Boston architect Stanley Parker, and was enlarged in 1966 to a design by Parker's son, Stanley Jr.[2]

See also

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine

References

1. ^{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
2. ^{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=77000077}}|title=NRHP nomination for Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2016-02-16}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bmpl.lib.me.us/about-the-library/about-the-library/the-librarys-history.html | title=Boothbay Memorial Library History | accessdate=2014-05-08}}

External links

  • Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library official site
{{National Register of Historic Places}}

6 : Boothbay Harbor, Maine|Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine|Public libraries in Maine|Libraries in Lincoln County, Maine|Greek Revival architecture in Maine|National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Maine

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