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390 Boston Post Rd, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA
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N42° 21' 47" W71° 25' 2"
(42.363055555556, -71.417222222222)
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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 it 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.
