Woburn Public Library - Public Library, Henry Hobson Richardson, Benjamin Thompson, National Historic Landmark

The Woburn Public Library (est.1856) or Winn Memorial Library is located at 45 Pleasant Street in Woburn, Massachusetts.The 1879 building was designed as a public library by American architect H. H. Richardson and is now a National Historic Landmark. The Winn family specifically requested that the library not be named after them despite their generosity paying for constructing the library, and the library is properly called the "Woburn Public Library." Nevertheless, it is popularly known, in architectural circles, as the Winn Memorial Library.