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The Fogg Library is a historic library building at 1 Columbian Street in
Weymouth, Massachusetts ("To Work Is to Conquer") , image_map = Norfolk County Massachusetts incorporated and unincorporated areas Weymouth highlighted.svg , mapsize = 250px , map_caption = Location in Norfolk County in Massa ...
. Built in 1897 to a design by Cutting, Carleton & Cutting, the Renaissance Revival stone building serves as a branch of the Weymouth Public Library. It was a gift from local businessman John S. Fogg. It has a steeply pitched gable roof with stepped ends in the Dutch Revival style and a projecting gable section that houses the entry under a round-arched loggia. The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...
in 1981.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts This is a list of properties and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, other than those within the city of Quincy and the towns of Brookline and Milton. Norfolk County contains m ...


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Library buildings completed in 1897 Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Libraries in Norfolk County, Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Weymouth, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts {{NorfolkCountyMA-NRHP-stub