Gaylord Memorial Library is a public library located at 47 College Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts, across from Mount Holyoke College.  The library is open to the public three days a week and offers a wide variety of programming and events to the community.

William H. Gaylord, founder of Gaylord Memorial Library

Gaylord Memorial Library rests on the former location of the South Hadley Village Cemetery. Following the destruction of the Center Church, which had previously housed books for the public, the village granted the site to the Gaylord Memorial Library Association. Putnam & Cox of Boston were appointed as architects, and for $25,161, the library building was constructed in roughly two years. William H. Gaylord and his wife Betsey Stone Gaylord lived to see the completion of the building in September 1904; unfortunately, both Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord passed away that December, both on the 22nd. Their portraits still hang in the rotunda of the library.

(from Bob Clancy’s “The Gaylord Memorial Library South Hadley, Massachusetts and the Architect, Mr. Allen H. Cox,” December 1979)