PHOTOS: 110 Years of Library Service in Shorewood

Take a peek at some historic photos of the Shorewood Public Library over its 110-year history.

Roughly 110 years ago, a public library was established in Shorewood. It would occupy many storefronts and locations over the decades before village officials settled on its current location, inside the Village Center. Starting out in the “pink” schoolhouse in the early part of the 20th century, then the basement of Village Hall, then several different storefronts — including the corner of N. Maryland Ave. and E. Capitol Dr., where City Market currently is — the Village eventually approved the creation of a designated building for the library. That came in the 1960s when the library moved onto E. Shorewood Blvd. The building was later demolished to build the current Village Center, where the library has been for the last decade.  Library …

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