Chase Library

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Chase Library
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Location7 Main St.,
Harwich, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°40′08″N70°7′17″W / 41.66889°N 70.12139°W / 41.66889; -70.12139
Built1911
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 14001094 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 29, 2014

Chase Library is the public library of West Harwich, Massachusetts. It is located in a small architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival building constructed in 1911. Efforts to build a library in West Harwich began in 1901, and reached fruition in 1906, with the gift of the home of Caleb Chase, a Harwich native who was son of a major local shipowner and shipbuilder and a successful businessman in his own right. The house, however, was not suitable for housing a library, so Dr. John Nickerson donated a corner of his large property that was near Chase's house for the purpose, and the present building, a small three-bay wood frame hip-roof building was constructed there. [2]

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The library building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Chase Library". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-01-13.