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After a year of scheduling, America by Design, a TV program recognizing architecture in the U.S., is coming to Winthrop this month to profile the Winthrop Library.
“The piece will focus on the building’s architecture and construction and will interview the design team and the general contractor and some of the more prominent subs,” Margo Peterson-Aspholm, senior principal architect at the Winthrop branch of Prentiss, Balance and Wickline told MVE. “The program seems to be geared towards the design and construction industry.”
“The producer reached out after the library won a Seattle AIA Honor Award [in 2023]. I believe that America By Design works with the AIA to identify projects they might want to feature. It was surprising, but also seems like a fun opportunity,” she added.
Winthrop head librarian Annika Troyer said the library will be open during filming, but patrons may need to sign a waiver acknowledging they might be recorded on camera.
The Winthrop library moved to several locations before it found a permanent home. It began as a trading post on Walter Frisbee’s homestead in Winthrop in 1898. It then moved to a private living room, to the Duck Brand Saloon, to sharing a space with Little Star Montessori School, to the current Visitor Information Center on Highway 20 in 2007, where it remained for 15 years.
The Winthrop Women’s Civic League managed the library for over 60 years until Winthrop Town Council voted to join the North Central Regional Library in 1982.
Friends of the Winthrop Library began reaching out to the community about the design of a new library in 2017. It broke ground in 2019 and was completed in 2022.
Ironically, it is located on the same site where Frisbee erected a trading post lending library back in 1898.
