{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox library | name = Randall Memorial Library | logo = | image = Randall Library - Stow, Massachusetts - DSC08740.jpg | caption = Randall Library in 2018 | country = United States of America | type = Public Library | established = 1851 | location = Stow, Massachusetts | num_branches = 1 | items_collected = | collection_size = | criteria = | legal_deposit = | req_to_access = | annual_circulation = | pop_served = 7,174 (2020 census) | members = | budget = | director = | num_employees = | website = https://www.stow-ma.gov/randall-library | coordinates = }} The '''Randall Library''' is a public library at 19 Crescent Street in Stow, Massachusetts. In 1851 John Witt Randall, a notable naturalist, poet, and art collector, donated his collection of 700 books to form a library and left a bequest in his will to construct the current library building and to fund a permanent trust.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.stow-ma.gov/randall-library/pages/about-library | title=About the Library | Stow MA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128121018/https://www.stow-ma.gov/randall-library/pages/about-library |archive-date=28 January 2020}}</ref> The library is part of the Minuteman Library Network.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.stow-ma.gov/randall-library | title=Randall Library | Stow MA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406082619/https://www.stow-ma.gov/randall-library |archive-date=6 April 2020}}</ref>
== Architecture == The library building was designed by the architect George G. Adams in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and built in 1893 by the contractor, A. P. Powers. A large addition was built in 1976. In 2021, town voters passed a major renovation project to demolish and rebuild the 1976 addition and restore parts of the historic 1800s section of the library.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Library Renovation Project Page {{!}} Stow MA |url=https://www.stow-ma.gov/library-renovation-project-page |access-date=2023-11-17 |website=www.stow-ma.gov |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309061147/https://www.stow-ma.gov/library-renovation-project-page |archive-date=9 March 2023}}</ref> alt=Black and white photograph of the historic 1800s Randall Library structure|thumb|Structure before the 1976 addition
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==External links== *[https://www.stow-ma.gov/randall-library Official website]
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{{authority control}} alt=Photograph of a brick structure and large tree|thumb|Main entrance in the 1970s addition
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