Chicopee Public Library
1846 – private library called the Cabot Institute (in Cabotville section of Springfield)
1853 – public library started from a Cabot Institute donation of books at Cabot Hall. This might have been the Cabot House across the street from the town hall.
1872 – library housed in the new Chicopee Town Hall
1890 – library moves next to the town hall into a house at the location of the 1913 library. This is Jerome Well’s house. It was before that Cabot Bank.
1911 – library temporarily moves back into Chicopee City Hall
1913 – Chicopee Library starts in new building at the former location
2004 – at current location
Sanborn 1885 map listed as a dwelling