July 2010 - Photo1: Main Entry; Photo2: Front wall form work; Photo3: View to new stairwell; Photo4: Round wall form work. (Photographed by Paul Mahoney)
June 2010 - Photo1: View from left exterior; Photo2: New Addition; Photo3: View from basement to new stairs; Photo4: View from new addition; Photo5: View to new stairs; Photo6: View to original room; Photo7: View to staff area. (Photographed by Paul Mahoney)
May 2010 - The building construction began on May 10, 2010. See photos below. (Photographed by Caroline Nie)
Week 1 - The Fowler Branch Library was officially closed for renovation at 5:00 p.m. on May 1, 2010. Movers began packing and moving Fowler Library materials to an offsite storage on May 3. Staff started setting up the Fowler satellite library - Fower Express located in the Harvey Wheeler Community Center on the same day. A new book drop is now available in the West Concord train station parking lot.Photos below captured some of the highlights of the first week. (Photos: Caroline Nie)
Located on Main Street in West Concord, the Fowler Library serves hundreds of patrons with a popular collection (close to 50,000 volumes) of books, books on CD, DVDs and newspapers and magazines. The staff is ready to recommend books and help families find materials in the Children’s Room. (Above: An architectural rendering of new Fowler, Main Street view.)
Programming at the Fowler Library includes Friday Flicks at Fowler presented by the Friends of the Library, book discussion groups and children’s programs.
In
1918, residents of West Concord, feeling that the distance between
West Concord and Concord Center limited their access to the Library’s
collections, petitioned for a branch library. A year later, the West
Concord Branch opened in one room of the West Concord Grammar School.
In 1928, through a bequest
of Loring
Nixon Fowler (1855-1921) — the well-liked owner of a general
store on Commonwealth Avenue in Concord Junction — the Library
Corporation began the process of building a separate Library on
a lot at the
corner of Main and
Church Streets,
purchased from Town of Concord. This building — the Loring N.
Fowler Memorial Library — was designed by architect Harry Little
and was dedicated
on May
18, 1930. Architect David Holdorf
designed the subsequent expansion of the building in 1996.
These passes are available at Fowler - Concord Museum, Museum of Fine Arts and Orchard House. Reservations may be made for current and next month. Each
museum has its own policy for use of its pass. Check with the Front Desk.
Located on Main Street in West Concord, the Fowler Library serves hundreds of patrons with a popular collection (close to 50,000 volumes) of books, books on CD, DVDs and newspapers and magazines. The staff is ready to recommend books and help families find materials in the Children’s Room. (Above: An architectural rendering of new Fowler, Main Street view.) 
