On the seventh of April, the Trustees of the Public Library took appropriate action on the gift of Mr. Wallace.  The following account appeared in the Sentinel of April 8: 

“At a meeting of the Trustees of the Public Library, Monday evening, the board adopted the following resolution, offered by Henry A. Willis, and on motion of Rev. P.J.  Garrigan it was voted to enter the same on their records, request the daily papers of the city to publish the same, and that Rev. P.J.  Garrigan, Henry A. Willis and L.H.  Bradford be appointed a committee to present the action of the board to Mr. Wallace: 

Resolved, That we have heard with great satisfaction of the proposed gift by Honorable Rodney Wallace of land and a building for the use of the Public Library, thus providing for a want long felt by the Trustees, viz:  facilities for making the Library fully available to the people of the city, which it never could be in its present confined quarters; that we will fully co-operate with the generous donor in any manner desired by him in carrying out the details of his proposed undertaking; and that we desire here to place upon our records our keen appreciation of the generous spirit which has moved him to tender this munificent gift.”

The new library building fronts on Main street, and looks out upon Monument Park and the beautiful Court House of North Worcester County.  It is of Greek classic style, and is built of Trenton pressed brick.  It has sandstone trimmings.  It has a frontage of seventy-four feet on Main street, and is sixty-five feet deep.  The basement is ten feet in height.  It is two stories above the basement.  The library floor is sixteen feet high.  The second story, which contains the picture gallery, is ten feet high on the outside, and thirty-two in the centre.  The extreme height is therefore fifty-eight feet.  The front of the building is especially imposing.  It has a projection in the centre, twenty-five feet wide and six feet deep, which extends the whole height of the structure and terminates in a gable, which is surrounded by a decorated pediment.  The main entrance is approached by massive steps of granite, twelve feet wide, flanked by heavy buttresses.  At the top of the steps is the entrance porch, eleven feet wide, six feet deep, and arched overhead.  Polished granite columns with carved capitals on either side support the archway above.  In the belt of sandstone above this arch is cut the legend “Library and Art Building.”  Above this belt is a row of windows separated by columns of brick.  Above these is a sandstone belt in which is cut the name of the donor, by vote of the City Government.  The title of the structure is therefore “Wallace Library and Art Building.”  Above is a row of circular windows separated by sandstone columns with carved capitals.  The hip roof of the building is crowned by a monitor top, which admits light into the art room below.  Over the entrance is to be the city seal, in antique and Venetian glass.  The whole structure is amply lighted by a large number of windows.