Goodnow Library

Massachusetts, United States

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Located in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the Goodnow Library is a historic public library built between 1862 and 1863 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building's distinctive two-story octagon shape was constructed on land and funded by John Goodnow II, a Sudbury native who bequeathed the town a three-acre site, $2,500 for construction, and $20,000 for acquisitions and maintenance upon his death in 1851. Though expanded in the 1990s to accommodate modern needs, the original octagonal structure remains intact and serves as a reading room. The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.