Hanover Town Library

United States historic place

Hanover Town Library

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| 130 Etna Rd., Hanover, New Hampshire
Coordinates| 43°41′41″N 72°13′6″W﻿ / ﻿43.69472°N 72.21833°W﻿ / 43.69472; -72.21833
Area| less than one acre
Built| 1905 (1905)
Architect| Fletcher, Robert E.
Architectural style| Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.| 97000371[1]
Added to NRHP| April 25, 1997

The Hanover Town Library, more commonly known as the Etna Library, is a historic library located at 130 Etna Road in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It primarily serves the Etna section of the town; the Classical Revival building it occupies was the first purpose-built library building in the town, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a modest brick building, designed by Dartmouth College professor Robert E. Fletcher and built in 1905.[2]

## Description and history

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The Etna Library is located in the village of Etna in eastern Hanover, on the north side of Etna Road near King Road. It is a single-story masonry structure, built of red brick with granite trim and covered by a hip roof. Its main facade is three bays wide, with paired narrow sash windows on either side of the center entrance. Each sash window is topped by a transom window, and the paired windows have rough-cut stone lintels and sills. The entrance is sheltered by a projecting portico, which has round Tuscan columns supporting a corniced entablature. The original entrance is a single door, set in a large segmented-arch opening with flanking double-width sidelight windows. The building has a rear projection that was originally designed to house a vault for town documents.[2]

Hanover's first lending library, a private endeavor, was established in 1801, and it (and later similar organizations) were based in the centrally located Etna village through the 19th century. In 1898, the town voted to establish a public library, which was seeded with these earlier collections. In March 1905, the town appropriated funds for the construction of a building, which was completed later that year. It was designed by Robert E. Fletcher, a Dartmouth College professor of engineering. In 2013–2014, the land surrounding the library was purchased by the Town of Hanover. An addition to the back of the library building and a parking lot next to the library was also built at this time.

The Etna Library shares a library catalog and a library card with reciprocal borrowing privileges with Hanover's other library, The Howe Library, but is otherwise a completely separate institution. The Etna Library is the official public library for the town of Hanover and is governed by three ballot-elected Trustees who serve three-year terms.[3]

## See also

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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Grafton County, New Hampshire

## References

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1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Hanover Town Library". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
3. ^ "Home". Etna Library. Retrieved 2023-11-07.

## External links

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* The Etna Library [Website]
* Etna Library Facebook Page
* Etna Library Instagram Account

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National Register of Historic Places in Grafton County, New Hampshire

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Historic districts|

* Ashland Gristmill and Dam
* Canaan Street Historic District
* Central Square Historic District
* Colburn Park Historic District
* Dorchester Common Historic District
* Enfield Shaker Historic District
* Enfield Village Historic District
* Haverhill Corner Historic District
* Hebron Village Historic District
* Lyme Center Historic District
* Lyme Common Historic District
* Orford Street Historic District
* Plymouth Historic District
* Shepard Hill Historic District
* True Farm
* Webster Estate

Historic properties|

* Abbie Greenleaf Library
* Ashland Junior High School
* Ashland Railroad Station
* Bath Covered Bridge
* Bedell Covered Bridge‡
* Boulderwood
* Brick Store
* Bristol Town Hall
* Burleigh Brae and Webster Boathouse
* Burt–Cheney Farm
* Camp Carnes
* Camp Mowglis
* Camp Ossipee
* Canaan Meetinghouse
* Centre Village Meeting House
* Chapel of the Holy Cross
* Chocorua Island Chapel
* Daniel Carr House
* Dorchester Community Church
* Dow Academy
* Edward H. Lane House
* Enfield Center Town House
* Felsengarten
* First Free Will Baptist Church and Vestry
* Frost Place
* Goodall-Woods Law Office
* Great Hollow Road Stone Arch Bridge
* Hanover Town Library
* Haverhill–Bath Covered Bridge
* Hewitt House
* Holderness Free Library
* Holderness Inn
* Jeremiah Hutchins Tavern
* Lisbon Inn
* Littleton Town Building
* Lovett's by Lafayette Brook
* Lyme–East Thetford Bridge‡
* Minot–Sleeper Library
* Morey Memorial Bridge‡
* Moses Kent House
* Norman and Marion Perry House
* North Holderness Freewill Baptist Church–Holderness Historical Society Building
* Old Grafton County Courthouse
* Owls Head
* Piermont Bridge‡
* The Rocks
* Rockywold–Deephaven Camps
* Sawyer–Medlicott House
* Sphinx Tomb
* Spring Hill Farm
* St. Mark's Episcopal Church
* Stone Arch Underpass
* Swiftwater Covered Bridge
* Thayer's Hotel
* Trinity Church
* US Post Office and Courthouse–Littleton Main
* Watch Rock Camp
* Whipple House
* Woodsville Opera Building

Footnotes|

‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Grafton County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire
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