Lynn Public Library

The Lynn Public Library building is a historic library at Five North Common Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although library services were offered in Lynn as early 1815, it was not until a bequest in 1896 that the city began planning a permanent home for the growing collection. After some controversy, library trustees chose a Renaissance Revival design by local architect George A. Moore, who happened to be related to one of the library trustees. Controversy also attended the size and scale of the building, along with the removal of trees at its site on the town common. It was completed at a cost of $175,000, which included no public funding.[2]

Lynn Public Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
South side
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Location	Lynn, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°27′52″N 70°57′13″W
Built	1898
Architect	Moore, George A.
Architectural style	Renaissance
Part of	Lynn Common Historic District (ID92000247)
NRHP reference No.	79000334[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 21, 1979
Designated CP	April 10, 1992

Construction of the library began in 1898 and it was opened in 1900.[2] In 1900 the library commissioned the first mural of F. Luis Mora, a prominent Hispanic American artist. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,[1] and included in the Lynn Common Historic District in 1992.[2]