Historic Structures

Structures of the type Library

Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington DC

This was a specially designed building, intended as the fireproof, permanent home of the Army Medical Museum, which was founded in 1862. It housed collection of surgical and medical specimens and a medical library.

It was demolished in 1969 and its collections transferred to Walter Reed Hospital, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

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Frederick Hall House (Hall-Fowler Library), Ionia Michigan

Frederick Hall was a local banker and important public official. For more than forty years he was a leading figure in Ionia. He was born in Vermont in 1816 and first came to Michigan in 1836, and settled in Ionia in 1841. The buying and selling of pine lands was his main business but the public positions he held were numerous. He was elected to the State legislature in 1849, a Democratic candidate for Congress, a Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor and became the first mayor of Ionia in 1873. Hall was a director of the Ionia and Lansing Railroad and President of the First National Bank of Ionia from its organization. He had earlier served as receiver of public money for the land office at Ionia in 1845.

Since 1903, the mansion has housed the Hall-Fowler Memorial Library. On October 9, 1903 it was opened to the public as a gift to the city from Mrs. Marion Hall-Fowler.

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Leavitt-Hovey House - now Greenfield Library, Greenfield Massachusetts

Built for Jonathan Leavitt. Early in the 19th century it was owned by Dr. George Hovey, and was inherited by his widow in 1888, It became the property of the Town of Greenfield in 1907.

A late 18th century mansion of a type rarely found in New England, with central mass, side pavilions and connecting links. Refined exterior details. Designed by Asher Benjamin. House has two-story main block with pavilions both sides.

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 Marcus McGraw House (Lamont Library), McGraw New York

 Pequot Library, Southport Connecticut

 Public Library and Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 Redwood Library, Newport Rhode Island

 The Volta Bureau (Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf), Washington DC