Watertown Free Library, Watertown, Massachusetts. -- Remember When it was in the News?

Watertown Free Library

123 Main Street

Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts

Great Library website for doing Watertown genealogy.

This library is my 16th in my series of showing the genealogy collections at some New England libraries. I went to this one soon after the genealogy community, especially those on Facebook, got wind that this library was going to "remove certain historical titles from the library's history room".

The Watertown Free Library (original building, built in 1884 and the new addition) is one of the nicest libraries I've ever been in. The old and new merge beautifully.

Above and below are in the old section. The staircase was closed to patrons.

More of the old section, here I am facing the history and genealogy room behind the doors.

On a Saturday afternoon, we were the only ones there. The genealogy section was packed with books and had very little if any free space for additional items.