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On May 25, 1888, Muskegon lumber baron Charles H. Hackley announced that he would donate a library to the city and stipulated that the facility be forever maintained as a library. Patton and Fisher of Chicago, one of the six firms invited to submit a plan for the library, designed a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building. The library was constructed of Maine granite and trimmed with Marquette sandstone, and the reading room windows depict Shakespeare, Goethe, Longfellow, and Prescott.
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