Title	Baldwin Museum and Library
Subject	Museum buildings--Ohio Public libraries--Ohio Library architecture--United States
Time Period	1930s
Place	Massillon (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	Caption on reverse reads: "District #5. 902 City Bldg., Akron, Ohio. Dec. 1, 1937. The Baldwin Museum and Library, located on Lincoln Way, E., U.S. Route #30, at Second. NE., two blocks E. of square, on L. side of street in Massillon." The Baldwin Museum and Library building, is located at 208 Lincoln Way East (Now Routes 172 and 241), at the corner of 2nd Street Northeast (NE). The brick, 'L' shaped building was designed by local architects Albrecht & Wilhelm, incorporating the original Baldwin home. The Greek Revival style entrance, with its four Corinthian columns, is topped with a copper rotunda and was funded, in part, by a WPA grant. Construction began in 1936, and reopened in 1937, while still partly unfinished. The building opened officially on April 3, 1938. The Baldwin home, once the home of the city's founder James Duncan, had been left to the Massillon Library Board in 1931 for use as a library and museum, following the death of Mrs. Annie Steese Baldwin, wife of prominent local attorney Frank Baldwin. It opened as the Baldwin Museum in 1933, and having fulfilled the terms of Mrs. Baldwin's will, immediately began plans for expansion. Now called the Massillon Museum, it now occupies a new building at 121 Lincoln Way East, on the corner of City Hall Street SE (southeast). The old building is now the Massillon Public Library.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	December 1, 1937
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B08F13_014_1.tif
Image Height	4786
Image Width	6063
File Size	87073232 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2010-04-30
Date modified	2010-06-10

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