Hepburn Library is a historic
library
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building located at
Norfolk
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in
St. Lawrence County, New York
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The county seat is Canton.
The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River. This was as named by early French explorer Ja ...
. It was designed by architects
Rossiter & Muller and built in 1919–1920. It is a T-shaped, cross-gable-roofed
Georgian Revival
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style brick building on a full, raised basement. Funding for its construction was provided by local philanthropist
A. Barton Hepburn.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2004.
References
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Library buildings completed in 1920
Buildings and structures in St. Lawrence County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in St. Lawrence County, New York
1920 establishments in New York (state)
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