Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s
Samuel and Nancy Kezar from Turner, New York, would live in a Queen Anne style home on Church Street that they built in 1894. When Samuel passed away in Romeo in 1898, his wife and daughter would move to San Francisco on the west coast. Mrs. Kezar’s would come into an inheritance and remembered their time in Romeo and donate the money to build the Kezar Memorial Library on the corner of Church and Main Street.
In 1910 a New York architect would draw up a plan for an ‘Old English Inn’ and building would begin. Henry Stephens II donated $1000. for the purchase of books, which did come with a proviso that he wanted to choose most of the books to be bought. But a generous gift never the less. Today when entering the library you are transported back to a time when life was more simpler and serene. Additions have been added over the years, never changing the original idea of the ‘perfect small town library’.
This was were I was directed to go to find the historical and genealogical information I was looking for. I had lived in the area for almost 10 years at the time and never knew about this treasure. Being someone who loves books and likes to own them,’borrowing’ books from a library had not entered the realm of my thought process. But finding the fact that they were the greatest source of research material, the Kezar became my home away from home.
On that ‘wee’ note, till next week.
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Linda, I am loving these stories on the background of the buildings we drive by or even visit! Libraries hold special place in my heart, even though, like you, I want to own my books.
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