{"id":7728,"date":"2020-01-15T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2020-01-16T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:00:44","slug":"mason-library-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7728","title":{"rendered":"Mason Library (1913)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/999o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"764\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/999o.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/999o-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/999o-768x587.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Dedicated July 24, 1913, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/578842\/mason-library-great-barrington-massachusetts\/\">Mason Library<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gblibraries.org\/about-us\/our-history\/\">Great Barrington<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=caVAAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PP9&#038;ots=MGFOGlJI0p&#038;dq=Blanchard%20%26%20Barnes%20architects&#038;pg=PP9#v=onepage&#038;q=Blanchard%20&#038;%20Barnes%20architects&#038;f=false\">designed<\/a> by Blanchard &amp; Barnes of New York. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/125294817\/mary-augusta-mason\">Mary Augusta Mason<\/a>, widow of Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/125294788\/henry-hobart-mason\">Henry Hobart Mason<\/a>, left $50,000 to build and furnish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcommonwealth.org\/search\/commonwealth:2r36v149p\">the library<\/a>, which replaced am earlier one located in a clapboard house that had previously stood on the site. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcommonwealth.org\/search\/commonwealth:2r36v1431\">The building<\/a> was rededicated in April, 2007 after extensive renovations that doubled its size and made it handicapped accessible. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"from a c. 1915 postcard [Public domain]\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mason_Library,_Great_Barrington,_MA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" alt=\"Mason Library, Great Barrington, MA\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/58\/Mason_Library%2C_Great_Barrington%2C_MA.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated July 24, 1913, the Mason Library Great Barrington was designed by Blanchard &amp; Barnes of New York. Mary Augusta Mason, widow of Captain Henry Hobart Mason, left $50,000 to build and furnish the library, which replaced am earlier one located in a clapboard house that had previously stood on the site. The building was rededicated in April, 2007 after extensive renovations that doubled its size and made it handicapped accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,208,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-revival","category-great-barrington","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728","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=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}