Goodnow Memorial Building - Princeton, MA - Doorways of the World on Waymarking.com

Single stone columns with foliated capitals, provide a vestibule for the recessed pair of two-paneled doors at the entrance of the library which is through a tower 14 feet square and 70 feet high.

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This Richardsonian Romanesque style building is built of Milford, Massachusetts, granite with Longmeadow brownstone trim. The battered foundation is of dark local granite and the roof is of black Maine slate. The exterior dimensions of the building are 60 x 67 feet. The tower is fourteen feet square and seventy feet high. In the tower is a Howard clock that rings a Meneely bell, inscribed “Goodnow Memorial Building” -- “Knowledge is Power”

Originally built to house both a library and a school, this building consists of two distinct but related parts. A one-story section on the east end of the building, which is dominated by a three-and-a-half-story clock tower at its southeast corner, was intended for the library. The two-story section on the west end housed the school. The two separate sections can be identified by the locations of their entrances on the main facade. The library entrance is through a vestibule in the base of the clock tower. The school entrance is to the left of the semicircular bay of the library reading room.
Richardsonian Romanesque features seen in the Goodnow Memorial include the use of rugged rockface granite and brownstone as building materials, the asymmetrical arrangement and strongly sculptural treatment of the building’s elements and roofline, the use of round-arched window and door openings, a deep round-arched entry porch framed by engaged columns, groupings of multiple rectangular windows, richly-carved foliate ornament, and contrasting granite and brownstone ornament to create a checkered effect on the tower and gable peaks.

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Type of material of the door: Wood Functional door?: Yes Location of this door/way: On public property Is it accessable only by paid admission": No Style: Romanesque Address or physical location: 2 Town Hall Dr, Princeton, MA

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