Silsby Free Library - Charlestown Main Street Historic District - Charlestown, New Hampshire
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BruceS
N 43° 14.078 W 072° 25.484
18T E 709109 N 4790091
Historic library in the Charlestown Main Street Historic District in Charlestown, New Hampshire
Waymark Code: WM4WWA
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2008
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"Silsby Free Library, (Main Street and Railway Street), 1893-1894
(&1977), C.C. McAlpine, Architect, Contributing.
A 1-1/2 story structure constructed of red brick laid in a bond of eight rows of
stretchers to a row alternating stretchers and headers, laid with red mortar
enhanced by rockface red sandstone trimmings. The center of the asymmetrical
structure is a gable roofed structure set broadside to Main Street with a
bellcast roof projecting from the south side of the facade capping an arched
entrance portico. Adjacent is a two-story circular tower with conical roof with
a cross gable to the north. Semicircular arched openings with rockfaced
voussoirs and impost blocks of sandstone mark the entrance with the brick piers
set on rockfaced bases, decorated by a terra cotta boss...
Funded by a request from Colonel Ithiel Homer Silsby of Acworth whose will
specific construction of 1-1/2 stories of face brick with stone trimmings.
Constructed between 1893 and 1894, the library was opened to the public in 1896.
Architect of the structure was C. C. McAlpine of Boston." ~
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