The ARCHITECT
Richard Morris Hunt - designed this architectural masterpiece a century and a half ago as the Howland Circulating Library in 1872. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and we re-opened the building as the Howland Cultural Center in 1979. |
The PHILANTHROPIST
Gen. Joseph & Eliza Howland - the Howland's commissioned their brother-in-law Richard Morris Hunt to design the Howland Circulating Library along with designing the grand addition music room at their Howland estate just south of the library building. |
The JEWEL OF BEACON
The Great Room gallery - is a well-established resource for the visual and live arts providing year-round artistic programming, supporting local artists and artists’ organizations, preserving this community’s historic building known as the “Jewel of Beacon”, and so much more. |