WINTHROP — The Charles M. Bailey Public Library will hold an open house to celebrate its 100th anniversary on Saturday, Dec. 3.

There will be an hourlong children’s party hosted by Winthrop Grade School fourth-graders at 10:30 a.m.

At 12:30 p.m., the library trustees and staff will host an all-ages open house, which will feature brief talks from town officials and a performance by the Winthrop Area Handbell Ringers.

On display will be photographs and newspaper clippings from the first 100 years of library service. Light refreshments will be served.

The library first opened its doors on Bowdoin Street on Dec. 2, 1916. Bailey, who owned one of the largest oilcloth manufacturers in America at the time, donated the rock-faced and chiseled granite building. Previously, the library operated as the Winthrop Public Library, which opened in 1889 in the historic downtown Packard Block building. The library was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and expanded in 2015.

All programs will take place in the King Event Room on the first floor. They are free and open to the public.