Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library

The Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library began its years of service to our community in 1876, on Main Street in the Brundage Building. The three story building was given to the newly formed Port Chester Free Reading Room by Jared Valentine Peck, a wealthy Port Chester lumber and building supplies businessman and a representative to the New York State Assembly and the United States Congress. The Brundage Building housed Lambert’s Dry Goods Store on its first level, the library on the middle floor and the Mamaro Lodge of Masons on the top floor. The income from the rents of the first and third floors supported the library during these first years. On April 14, 1877, the library was incorporated as “The Library and Reading Room of the Village of Port Chester.”Fifty years later, the Library building was dedicated in its present location at Haseco and Westchester Avenues. Read more about the history of the Library at: www.portchester-ryebrooklibrary.org/history

1 Haseco Ave, Port Chester, NY
www.portchester-ryebrooklibrary.org

Schedule:

11 am - 4 pm: A free arts creation area where you can let your imagination run wild in creating a drawing, collage, or small sculpture.