The Plumb Memorial Library is a public library in Shelton, Connecticut. It is located at 65 Wooster St., in an architecturally distinguished

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesq ...

building designed by

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architect

Charles T. Beardsley, Jr. Charles T. Beardsley Jr. (1861–1937) was an American architect practicing in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Beardsley was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1861. At the age of 15 he went to New Haven, where he took a position in the office of Henry Aust ...

and built in 1895. It was listed on the

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in 1978. The building is named in memory of David Wells Plumb, a local businessman and philanthropist, whose widow donated land for its construction. A modern addition was added in 1975, significantly enlarging the library's space and look. and

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Library buildings completed in 1895 National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut Libraries in Fairfield County, Connecticut Buildings and structures in Shelton, Connecticut {{Connecticut-NRHP-stub

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