The Belmont Public Library is a

public library A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil servic ...

Belmont, Massachusetts Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a western suburb of Boston and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, its population was 27,295, an increase of 10.4% from 2010. H ...

. It is a member of the

Minuteman Library Network Founded first as a cooperative, the Minuteman Library Network (MLN) is today a Library consortium, consortium of over 40+ public or academic library, academic libraries. The network consists of an aggregate collection of over sum 6 million items a ...

. It is located on Concord Avenue near Belmont Center.

Buildings

The library has been housed in three buildings. Originally, it was housed in the Belmont Town Hall, designed by architects

Hartwell and Richardson Hartwell and Richardson was a Boston, Massachusetts architectural firm established in 1881, by Henry Walker Hartwell (1833–1919) and William Cummings Richardson (1854–1935). The firm contributed significantly to the current building stock and ...

and completed in 1881. In 1902, a new facility was donated by Henry Oliver Underwood and opened in 1902. The building is on Pleasant Street and now serves as the School Administration Building. In 1965, the Belmont Memorial Library on Concord Avenue was opened. In 2024, the Belmont Memorial Library was torn down, with a planned opening of a new building in Fall 2025.

Administration

The current library director is Peter Struzziero.

References

External links

* https://belmontpubliclibrary.net/ Public libraries in Massachusetts Libraries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Belmont, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-struct-stub