Keene Valley Library

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Keene Valley Library

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Keene Valley Library, June 2009
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Location Main St., Keene Valley, New York
Coordinates 44°11′25″N73°47′11″W / 44.19028°N 73.78639°W / 44.19028; -73.78639 Coordinates: 44°11′25″N73°47′11″W / 44.19028°N 73.78639°W / 44.19028; -73.78639
Area less than one acre
Built 1896
Architect Dodge, Rev. William; Trumball, Arthur & Luck, George
Architectural style Shingle Style, Adirondack
NRHP reference # 00001528 [1]
Added to NRHP December 13, 2000

Keene Valley Library is a historic library building located at Keene Valley in Essex County, New York. The original building was built in 1896, with additions completed in 1923, 1931, 1962, and 1985. The original main block is a one-story timber frame structure on a random ashlar foundation. The building exhibits features of the Shingle Style and Adirondack Architecture. [2]

Library Organized collection of resources

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items. In Latin and Greek, the idea of a bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliothēkē : derivatives of these mean library in many modern languages, e.g. French bibliothèque.

Essex County, New York County in the United States

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Ashlar Finely dressed stone and associated masonry

Ashlar is finely dressed stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared or the structure built of it. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally cuboid, mentioned by Vitruvius as opus isodomum, or less frequently trapezoidal. Precisely cut "on all faces adjacent to those of other stones", ashlar is capable of very thin joints between blocks, and the visible face of the stone may be quarry-faced or feature a variety of treatments: tooled, smoothly polished or rendered with another material for decorative effect.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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