{"id":6908,"date":"2014-12-16T20:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T01:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2014-12-16T20:53:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T01:53:55","slug":"former-harvard-public-library-1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6908","title":{"rendered":"Former Harvard Public Library (1886)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/library-02.jpg\" alt=\"Harvard Public Library\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/library-02.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/library-02-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6715\">old Broomfield School<\/a> in Harvard reopened as the <a href=\"http:\/\/u000011520.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/New-Harvard-Public-Library\/G0000yNUHZUAgF3Q\">new home<\/a> of the town&#8217;s public library. Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=HRV.4\">previous library building<\/a> is located at 7 Fairbank Street. Built in 1886 and expanded in 1902, the Harvard Public Library was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Channing_Whitney\">William Channing Whitney<\/a> (1851-1945), the nephew of <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rPwWAAAAYAAJ&#038;lpg=PR6&#038;ots=9fmFT0-7hn&#038;dq=Hannah%20W.C.%20Sawyer%20harvard&#038;pg=PR6#v=onepage&#038;q=Hannah%20W.C.%20Sawyer%20harvard&#038;f=false\">Edward Lawrence<\/a>, who had donated $5,000 for books provided the town constructed a building to house them. A further gift of $5,000 from <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5a87AQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA188&#038;ots=98JOc699Gg&#038;dq=Hannah%20W.C.%20Sawyer%20harvard&#038;pg=PA188#v=onepage&#038;q=Hannah%20W.C.%20Sawyer%20harvard&#038;f=false\">Hannah W.C. Sawyer<\/a> provided for purchasing the lot and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_EY4AQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA1164&#038;ots=40keJ8A7NZ&#038;dq=Hannah%20W.C.%20Sawyer%20harvard&#038;pg=PA1164#v=onepage&#038;q=Hannah%20W.C.%20Sawyer%20harvard&#038;f=false\">building the library<\/a> on the site of an inn that had burned down in 1880. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/library-01.jpg\" alt=\"Library\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/library-01.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/library-01-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, the old Broomfield School in Harvard reopened as the new home of the town&#8217;s public library. Harvard&#8217;s previous library building is located at 7 Fairbank Street. Built in 1886 and expanded in 1902, the Harvard Public Library was designed by William Channing Whitney (1851-1945), the nephew of Edward Lawrence, who had donated $5,000 for books provided the town constructed a building to house them. A further gift of $5,000 from Hannah W.C. Sawyer provided for purchasing the lot and building the library on the site of an inn that had burned down in 1880.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,121,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard","category-libraries","category-richardsonian-romanesque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}