Upton Public Library

Upton, United States

5

1 review

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+1 508-529-6272
Address:
2 Main St, Upton, MA, 01568
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Local time (Upton) 6:26 PM Sunday, June 8, 2025

Business hours

Monday –
Tuesday 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday –

Description

Specialties

The library has a collection of over 30,000 books, movies, and audio materials and is part of the C/​W MARS network. Movies and magazines can be checked out for free for one week, and books, audiobooks, and TV shows can be borrowed for three weeks at a time. We host several local book clubs as well as activities for children and teens.

History

Established in 1871.

The Upton Town Library was founded in 1871 and moved into its current home in the newly renovated Knowlton-​Risteen Building in the 1970s. 2014 saw a major interior renovation as the library was newly painted and carpeted and had a custom circulation desk built.

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1 review of Upton Public Library

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Place rating: 5
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The Upton Library is indeed an impressive building. Huge, bulky and very imposing. It looks far more like a church than a library but that isn’t exactly surprising since it was originally built as a church way back around 1870.
I’m not sure why but for some reason the town hall moved in the building in 1884 and the other parts of the large building were used for various other things throughout the years.
Finally in 1972 the town decided the building would be a good place for a library and all the books and other library stuff were moved in. The second floor houses a fine local museum and storage spaces.
The library is a fun place to walk around both on the outside and in. Definitely a very cool building with lots of cool stuff inside. Lots of nice places to relax and read or do some serious work.
The library also has all kinds of programs including, music, art and crafts and tons of children’s activities. Plenty of room to do pretty much whatever you want.
The museum part upstairs was closed when we went but the very kind, funny and spunky librarian got the key and let up go up there for a quick look. We didn’t linger because we didn’t want to become to intrusive.
A very, cool library with a very, very cool librarian. This is the classic New England library that has history, charm, ambiance and one very cool librarian working there. A place worth visiting even if it didn’t have any books.