Mendon Public Library

History

A group of women from the Fortnightly Club of Honeoye Falls formed the Honeoye Falls Free Library in 1912. Its 500 books were circulated free of charge from two upstairs rooms in a building on Main Street. In 1928 Jonathon Noxon bequeathed $10,000 to the Honeoye Falls Free Library for the purpose of erecting a library building. The Honeoye Falls Free Library Association transferred its holdings to the newly incorporated Honeoye Falls Library Inc. in 1935. The new library was completed in 1936; it is the white-home like building on Monroe Street that is still part of today’s library. The Town of Mendon established the Mendon Public Library in 1968. The Trustees of the Honeoye Falls Library voted to dissolve that organization and transfer its assets to the newly established Mendon Public Library. An addition to the Monroe Street library building was completed in 1975, to make room for the expanded collection. Over one hundred volunteers from church, social and service groups in the community moved the entire book collection from the old building into the new space.

In 2006 over 90,000 items were circulated from the library; over 70,000 people visited it; over 3,000 people attended 100 free library programs. Circulation and visits are growing each year, and once again the Mendon Public Library has outgrown its space. The Board of Trustees and the Town of Mendon are actively engaged in planning a new library, more the twice the size of the current one, to be located immediately behind our existing building. For more information about the library, plans, and ways you can contribute.