Many Different Homes for the Library

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Photograph of the original high school in Hastings, now the middle school. The Women's Club first moved their private reading room to this new public location in 1918.

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The front facade of the Post Office that became the Hastings Public Library in 1965 at the corner of Church and Court streets, Hastings, MI.

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After starting out as a private reading room for the members of the Women's Club of Hastings, the Library went public in 1917/1918 by moving to the High School. It then transitioned to the Old Post Office in 1965, and then the newest home in a purpose built building in 2007.