Lynn Public Library
Lynn Public Library is a building in Lynn, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 1979.
Plan your visit
- Access
- Open to visitors
Source: Wikidata: public library with official website · last verified October 31, 2026 - Location
- Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
- Official website
- See the official website
- Directions
- Get directions
National Register listing does not mean a place is open to the public. Parking and accessibility are shown only when verified.
History
The Lynn Public Library building is a historic library at Five North Common Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although library services were offered in Lynn as early 1815, it was not until a bequest in 1896 that the city began planning a permanent home for the growing collection. After some controversy, library trustees chose a Renaissance Revival design by local architect George A. Moore, who happened to be related to one of the library trustees. Controversy also attended the size and scale of the building, along with the removal of trees at its site on the town common. It was completed at a cost of $175,000, which included no public funding.
Construction of the library began in 1898 and it was opened in 1900. In 1900 the library commissioned the first mural of F. Luis Mora, a prominent Hispanic American artist. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and included in the Lynn Common Historic District in 1992.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The official nomination form is linked under Sources.
Other listings in Lynn
- Diamond Historic District District · listed 1996
- High Rock Tower-High Rock Cottage and Daisy Cottage District · listed 1979
- Lynn Bank Block Building · listed 1982
- Lynn Common Historic District District · listed 1992
- Lynn Realty Company Building No. 2 Building · listed 1983
- Lynn, Armory Building · listed 1979
- Nahant Beach Boulevard-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston District · listed 2003
- Old Lynn High School Building · listed 2002
- St. Stephen's Memorial Church Building · listed 1979
- Vamp Building Building · listed 1983
- Capitol Diner Building · listed 1999
- Central Square Historic District District · listed 1985
- English High School Building · listed 1986
- Fabens Building Building · listed 1982
- G.A.R. Hall and Museum Building · listed 1979
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