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slightly recessed entry, which has slender Tuscan columns on either side, supporting an entablature with a half-round wagon wheel window. A modillioned cornice line is topped by a parapet. The interior of the building features richly detailed woodwork, particularly in the paneled entry hall. A stained glass window decorates the central section, with reading rooms in the flanking wings.
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The library building is a single-story Classical Revival building, built out of tan brick. The building is T-shaped, and stands overlooking Main Street across Wilson Stream. The main facade is three bays wide, the central one projecting and providing the main entrance. Brick piers frame the
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The Wilton Free Public Library was established in 1901 by petition of the town residents, and originally housed in one of the downtown commercial buildings. In 1914 the town received a bequest from the estate of Agnes I. Goodspeed, supplemented by additional donations by her sons, for the
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construction of this library building, which was dedicated in October 1916. It is one of the later works of
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Wilton Free Public Library is located in Maine
Wilton Free Public Library is located in the United States
Wilton, Maine
44°35′16″N 70°13′51″W / 44.58778°N 70.23083°W / 44.58778; -70.23083
MPS
Maine Public Libraries MPS
88003019
Wilton, Maine
Harry S. Coombs
National Register of Historic Places
Lewiston
Harry S. Coombs
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"NRHP nomination for Goodspeed Memorial Library"
Wilton Free Public Library web site
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Contributing property

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