Article March 3, 1956 Issue

More Accessible and Truly Representative

[Note: Extracts from reports prepared for the Reading Room Division by two executive boards]

New Canaan, Connecticut

For many years our Christian Science Reading Room functioned in a modest frame structure which we had bought and converted for use as our church. When the membership voted to build on the spacious property we owned, it was decided to incorporate our Reading Room on the ground floor. This Reading Room was opened on February 1, 1954. We realized that this might be only a temporary move, since the advisability of permanently locating nearer the center of town, instead of slightly out of it on a hill, was ever uppermost in our thoughts.

About a year later one of our attendants, the owner of a block of attractive new brick colonial stores on one of New Canaan's three main shopping thoroughfares, notified us that one of these was available. A meeting was held, and the vote to rent it was unanimous. This step, coming so soon after the move into our new church edifice, seemed to be adventurous, but it was taken with gratitude and joy. The move entailed alterations and the addition of a partition to form a separate salesroom and study room. The project proved to be a shining example of loving co-operation. The architect, a member of a nearby Christian Science church, donated her services, and a committee of church members worked with the librarian to complete the furnishing of the Reading Room.

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