Landmark

Woods Hole Public Library

Falmouth · Barnstable County

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Woods Hole Public Library is a historic building located at 581 Woods Hole Rd in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1912 in the Craftsman style, designed by Ernest A. Sterling. It is part of a local historic district.

About this site

Woods Hole Public Library is a landmark in Falmouth, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.5235, -70.6681 near Falmouth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Davis, Capt. Thomas G. House and Store (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Bradley, Capt. William House, Crowell, Azariah Foster House, and Beatty - Ladd Building.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Reading in the village began with a Social Library organized in 1873, and the collection moved among borrowed quarters for forty years before this fieldstone building opened on Woods Hole Road in 1913. Its rough stone walls answer the summer-colony taste of the scientific village that had grown up around the Marine Biological Laboratory. An addition in 1952 doubled the original floor area, and further expansions followed; the library remains an independent association library serving Woods Hole.

Sources: woodsholepubliclibrary.org falmouthpubliclibrary.org

📍 41.5235, -70.6681 · Falmouth, Barnstable County

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