Memorial Hall Library

John Smith,owner of Smith and Dove Mill, proposed to donate $25,00 providing the town raise an equal sum to establish a library. A portion of the Town's funds can from money ($4500) raised to to construct a monument to the Civil War. The second floor of the library was constructed with a Memorial Hall in honor of Andover's Civil War Veterans on the second floor.

When the original Memorial Hall Library was dedicated on May 30, 1873, the saying "Lest We Forget" in honor of Andover's Civil War Veterans was place over the front door.

Additions to the original Library

• 1926 - addition of a Children's Room
• 1961 - extension of the Children's Room
• 1966 - the Reading Room was extended
• 1988 - ground breaking ceremony for completion of a rear wing that doubled the sized of the library: the old section was 20,000 square feet in size; the addition was 30,000 square feet.

A Cronology of Memorial Hall library can be found on Chronology of Memorial Hall Library

See

• Andover, What It Was, What It Is. : 300th Anniversary, May 30 - June 2, 1946, (974.45 And), fifth section.
• Memorial Hall Library Pamphlet
• Memorial Hall Library file in the Andover Room.
• Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996 by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 198 and 199.

--Eleanor 20:52, December 28, 2006 (EST)

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