NewCanaanLibrary.org
About NewCanaanLibrary.org
The New Canaan Library has served local readers since 1877, when it was founded by volunteers who staffed it as a reading room on Elm Street, loaning donated books. In 1913 the Library moved to the corner of Main and Cherry Streets. Nearly half of that original building, the portion that is now the Richard Salant Room, was rented to the New Canaan Historical Society at the rate of $5 per year. The Library expanded in 1937, 1952, and again in 1979 with the addition of the Lapham Wing.
