Williams Free Library
Beaver Dam, United States
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The Williams Free Library in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, completed in 1890, is a limestone structure notable for pioneering the open-stacks library system in the United States. Built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the building exemplifies the architectural grandeur of late nineteenth-century public institutions. Though the library relocated in 1985 and the building ceased its original function, the structure remains recognized as one of Beaver Dam's architectural landmarks, listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- public library, library building
- Materials
- limestone
- Heritage
- listed in the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Beaver Dam, United States
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