FAYETTE – Selectmen are looking at the feasibility of moving the Underwood Memorial Library building across Route 17 to the side of Fayette Central School closest to Livermore Falls.
If the move is feasible, the board’s Chairman Berndt Graf said Tuesday the town would seek grant funds for the project, which would include adding plumbing and a bathroom, and would not use taxpayers’ money.
The board would like to see it put beside the school so that the building could be used to its fullest extent, Graf said.
The library, a historic one-room schoolhouse, doesn’t have a bathroom and has minimal parking.
If the building were beside the school, students could use it during school hours.
Currently, the library is open on Wednesdays, and it opens a few more days during the summer months.
Schoolchildren used to be bused across and down the street to the library but are no longer, Graf said.
Selectmen are also exploring the feasibility of moving the historic Webster homestead on Bamford Hill Road to attach it to the library.
This building could be used for needed expansion of the public library and to create a living museum on the lifestyles of early Fayette homesteaders, according to a project overview discussed at Monday’s selectmen’s meeting.
“As Fayette experiences growth in construction, the early homesteads are being lost. The Webster homestead provides Fayette citizens the opportunity to preserve, respect and enjoy the lives of early settlers while creating a cultural education center for young and old,” the overview stated.
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