Beach Memorial Library, Newtown, Connecticut:
At 63 Main Street is Newtown’s Beach Memorial Library. Built in 1900, the American Craftsman style edifice was a gift of Rebecca D. Beach, a descendant of Reverend John Beach, the first minister of Newtown’s Trinity Episcopal Church. Another Beach descendant, John Francis Beach, laid the building‘s cornerstone.
It served as a library until 1932 when the Cyrenius H. Booth Library opened, and the former library became a private residence. The house was later owned by John Reed, who served as Superintendent of Newtown Schools for twenty years. The residence features a hipped roof, exposed rafters, leaded glass, deep eaves, braces, and a field stone exterior.
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