The new M.N. Spear Library, a 4,400-square-foot library at 66 Leverett Road.
Plans for the project, designed by Oudens Ello Architecture of Boston, show a single-story building with a peaked roof, with an adjacent driveway and parking. It would replace the M.N. Spear Memorial Library, a 768-square-foot building with no running water that opened in the town center in 1902. The new building will have adult and children’s rooms, space for teens, a public meeting room, a staff work room and a director’s office.
The new 4,400-square foot Shutesbury Library is nearly complete! Cedar siding is in place, windows and doors are in, and solar panels are mounted on the roof.
On the M.N. Spear Library Project we were subcontracted by Construction Dynamics Inc., out of Clinton Massachusetts, as the General Contractor, for the rough framing and exterior siding package.
The rough framing package included the framing and sheathing of the exterior and interior walls. The roof framing was a combination of conventional stick framed lumber over the office space section, with timber trusses, and 2 x6 T & G roof deck board which provided a nice finished vaulted ceiling, on the main interior of the Library itself.
The exterior siding package consisted of the installation of the windows, installation of rigid foam and hat channel, wood strapping and Alaskan shiplap siding run vertically.