7 Main St., Harwich, Massachusetts. County/parish: Barnstable.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 29, 2014. NRIS 14001094.
1 contributing building.
Chase Library is the public library of West Harwich, Massachusetts. It is located in a small architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival building constructed in 1911. Efforts to build a library in West Harwich began in 1901, and reached fruition in 1906, with the gift of the home of Caleb Chase, a Harwich native who was son of a major local shipowner and shipbuilder and a successful businessman in his own right. The house, however, was not suitable for housing a library, so Dr. John Nickerson donated a corner of his large property that was near Chase's house for the purpose, and the present building, a small three-bay wood frame hip-roof building was constructed there.
The library building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
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