Vaughn Public Library reading room, Ashland, WI
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- 1888
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Interior view of the Vaughn Public Library reading room on the second floor of the Vaughn Block building. Tables and chairs are placed around the room and men and women are reading. Tall windows are visible in the back as well as holiday decorations on the walls.
Samuel Stewart Vaughn, a lumber and real estate barn and dry goods merchant who died in Ashland in 1886, had a dream for Ashland to have a free public library. His widow, Emeline E. Vaughn, honored this dream and built the Vaughn Library, a three story building on the corner of Vaughn Ave and Second Street in Ashland, WI which was dedicated on November 16, 1888. Rental income from the F.J. Pool Company on the first floor and offices on the third floor supported the library which was located on the second floor. In 1983, the library was turned over and deeded to the Vaughn Library Association for operation. The library moved to the ground floor in order to house the Works Progress Administration offices in 1937.
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Ashland Historical Society Museum
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- Photographs
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- Chicago citation style
- Vaughn Public Library reading room, Ashland, WI. 1888. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/Ashland/id/47. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- (1888) Vaughn Public Library reading room, Ashland, WI. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/Ashland/id/47
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/Ashland/id/47>.