Location: Clifton Springs, NY
Cost: $1,100,000
Description: A small library (total area 5,000 square feet) for the Village of Clifton Springs incorporating a late nineteenth century passenger train station on a narrow site. The solution adaptively reuses the passenger station (1,520 SF) for stacks and a local history room. To meet the program needs, an east and west addition were provided, each visually separated from the passenger station by "transparent" circulation elements.
The additions are single-story, rectilinear buildings that contain design elements suggested by the passenger station, such as a hip roof with decorative heavy timber beams, matching window proportions, entrance arches, and a lower brick band. These were incorporated so that the building pieces would blend with each other.
The east addition (2,850 SF) contains the circulation area, reading lounge, children's room, office, work room, and a mezzanine for extra stacks. The west addition (1,150 SF) is used as a multi-purpose room, housing library and other Village functions.
This adaptive reuse project won the Landmark Society of Western New York's Award of Merit in 1991.
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