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The Winn Memorial Library is a public library designed by noted American architect H. H. Richardson. It is located at 45 Pleasant Street, Woburn, Massachusetts, and is now a National Historic Landmark. It should be noted that the Winn family specifically requested that the library NOT be named after them despite their generosity paying for constructing the library, and the library is properly called the "Woburn Public Library." Nevertheless, it is popularly known as the Winn Memorial Library.
The library was built between 1876-1879 as the first of Richardson's series of library designs and in it he established his characteristic, asymmetrical plan for such buildings: an entrance and reception, usually with staircase tower; the reading room(s) with stacks; and an optional art gallery.
The library's front facade presents a long, single-story stack area (at left), with high, column-separated windows forming a strip below the peaked roof; a projecting, three-story set of reading rooms with entryway and High Victorian tower at center right; and picture gallery and octagonal museum at the right side. The facade is formed of brownstone with lighter stone trim, arranged in polychrome over the main arches, accented with a red tile roof.
A statue of native son and notable scientist Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, rises from the main lawn before the library.
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