The Goodnow Library is an historic public library building located at 21 Concord Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It is named for Sudbury-native John Goodnow II, who died in 1851 and left to the town of Sudbury a 3-acre (1.2 ha) site for a library, $2,500 to build it, and $20,000 to buy books and to maintain it. Construction of the two-story octagon-shaped building began in 1862 and was finished in 1863. In the 1990s, the library was expanded to its present size, but the original octagon survives as a reading room.
On May 22, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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"About Us - Goodnow Library". Goodnow Library. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2023. https://goodnowlibrary.org/about/our-library/about-us/ ↩
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP ↩
"Sudbury History". Sudbury Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved June 28, 2022. https://www.sudbury.org/history ↩
"Floor plan of present library showing octagon". Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved June 27, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20071217101702/http://sudbury.ma.us/mapnav/images/goodnow.png ↩
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP ↩