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Printed with white lines on a dark blue background. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Publisher: Cambridge: W. A. Mason & Son. This blueprint shows the lot Warren Gould Roby gave to the town of Wayland, MA which was accompanied by a gift of $10,000 to build a public library on the site. The library was built in 1900. According to the Middlesex Registry of Deeds, "The said lot of land is the same marked "Library Lot ½ acre" on a plan of a portion of the Warren G. Roby Estate, Wayland as set off for the Wayland Public Library." The deed describes the property as bordering Concord Road and being 225 feet from the house of the deceased Warren Roby, and bordered by the land of the Massachusetts Central Railroad Company. The library committee was grateful for the gift, but not so happy about the location of the site. The Report of the Library Building Committee in the 1899 Wayland Town Report states, “From the first, your committee has regretted that the will of Mr. Roby restricts them in their choice of library site. The building, which, in itself, is hoped to be an architectural feature of the town, must of necessity be built upon a side hill and low, marshy land.” The town bought an additional piece of land from the estate of Mary (Roby) Brackett in 1922 which made it possible to build an addition to the library in 1987.
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