Peavey Memorial Library

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Peavey Memorial Library
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The Peavey Memorial Library, May 2014
Peavey Memorial Library
44°54′13″N66°59′07″W / 44.90365°N 66.98524°W / 44.90365; -66.98524
Location Eastport, Maine
Type Public library
Established1893 (1893)

Peavey Memorial Library is an historic public library in downtown Eastport, Maine, United States. [1]

It was built in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style and named for Albert Peavey, an Eastport resident whose son, Frank Peavey, had moved to Minnesota, founded a major grain company, and invented the concrete grain elevator. Frank Peavey left money to Eastport for the establishment of the Peavey Memorial Library in honor of his father, who had died at age 35, when Frank was only 9 years old. [2] [3]

References

  1. "Peavey Memorial Library, Eastport". Maine Preservation. Retrieved July 24, 2025.
  2. "The Quoddy Tides, January 26, 1979". The Quoddy Tides . January 26, 1979. p. 13. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  3. Fallows, Deborah (August 28, 2019). "The Gift of a Public Library". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 2, 2019.