{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Goodnow Library | nrhp_type = | image = Goodnow Library, December 2012, South Sudbury MA.jpg | caption = Goodnow Library: Sudbury, Massachusetts | location = 21 Concord Rd., Sudbury, Massachusetts | coordinates = {{coord|42|21|47|N|71|25|2|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Massachusetts#USA | area = | built = 1862 | architect = Joseph R. Richards, et al. | architecture = Romanesque, Octagon Mode | added = May 22, 2002 | refnum = 02000549 <ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> }}
The '''Goodnow Library''' is an historic public library building located at 21 Concord Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It is named for Sudbury-native John Goodnow II, who died in 1851 and left to the town of Sudbury a {{convert|3|acre|adj=on}} site for a library, $2,500 to build it, and $20,000 to buy books and to maintain it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us - Goodnow Library |url=https://goodnowlibrary.org/about/our-library/about-us/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202105236/https://goodnowlibrary.org/about/our-library/about-us/ |archive-date=2 December 2022 |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=Goodnow Library}}</ref> Construction of the two-story octagon-shaped building began in 1862 and was finished in 1863. In the 1990s, the library was expanded to its present size, but the original octagon survives as a reading room.<ref name="nris"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sudbury.org/history |title=Sudbury History |website=Sudbury Chamber of Commerce |access-date=June 28, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sudbury.ma.us/mapnav/images/goodnow.png |title=Floor plan of present library showing octagon |access-date=2008-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217101702/http://sudbury.ma.us/mapnav/images/goodnow.png |archive-date=2007-12-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On May 22, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris"/>
==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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==External links== {{commons category}} * [http://goodnowlibrary.org Goodnow Library website] * [http://goodnowlibrary.org/news/event-photos/ Goodnow Library gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113174908/http://goodnowlibrary.org/news/event-photos/ |date=January 13, 2014 }} * [http://www.sudbury.ma.us/services/infosys/custom/historic1880-89/gallery.htm Etching of the octagon library ca. 1888]
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Category:Library buildings completed in 1863 Category:Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category:Octagonal buildings in the United States Category:Public libraries in Massachusetts Category:Buildings and structures in Sudbury, Massachusetts Category:Libraries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Category:National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Category:1863 establishments in Massachusetts
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