Public Library, Pittsfield, Maine N63C

Public Library, Pittsfield, Maine N63C

A view of Pittsfield's Public Library. The library building is located on the corner of Main Street and Library Street. It opened to the public in April of 1904. Albert Randolph Ross of New York City designed the building. A Civil War Soldiers Monument statue is on the front lawn and a canon can be seen on the right. The Soldier’s Monument was dedicated with the Pittsfield Public Library on May 28, 1904. From the Pittsfield Public Library website: “The library was built for the needs of the local population in 1903. It is located on the corner of Library and South Main Streets, across the tracks from the Depot Museum. It was built with a $15,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and matched with $10,000 raised from the citizens of Pittsfield, and $5,000 from the estate of the late Robert Dobson. The library and monument to the soldiers of the Civil War, which is in front of the library, were dedicated in 1904 and named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the same year the interior of the dome was painted. Granite inscriptions of World War I veterans are mounted on each side of the front entrance doors. The small masonry building and the land on which it sits is owned by the Town.”