Village School (1851) – Pound Ridge Library
In 1851, land was donated for a new schoolhouse at the site of the current Library. At that time, the District 5 schoolhouse was adjacent to the Presbyterian Church and was about thirty years old. A new schoolhouse was built on the donated land, and the building remained a schoolhouse until 1939. During World War II, the building became the headquarters of the local Red Cross. After the war, the Hiram Halle Estate donated the schoolhouse and a parcel of land for a library. The Hiram Halle Memorial Library opened in 1952. Its core is still the old schoolhouse, but additions in 1954, 1964, and 1971 have considerably enlarged the building.