The Huff Memorial Library is a historic library located at 320 South King Street in

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. The single-story log library was built by the

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between 1938 and 1940. The library replaced the city's first library, which had been established in St. John's House in 1915 but had become too small for the city by the 1930s. Jackson's

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, along with several other community groups, began to work to bring a county library to the city. The WPA approved the city's proposal for a library in 1938, and it was built over the next two years. The library was named after Charles Huff, the city's only physician for over twenty years. The county library relocated to a new building in 1997, and the old library became a county office building. . The Huff Memorial Library should not be confused with the Teton County Library which is located on 125 Virginian Lane, Jackson Wyoming. The library was added to the

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on December 5, 2003.

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Huff Memorial Library
at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
Teton County Library
is not related to Huff Memorial Library. They are two different locations. Library buildings completed in 1940 Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming Buildings and structures in Teton County, Wyoming Rustic architecture in Wyoming National Register of Historic Places in Teton County, Wyoming 1940 establishments in Wyoming {{Wyoming-NRHP-stub