107 Church Street
c. 1910 – Old English
The S. F. Kezar family, natives of Unger, Maine, lived in Romeo during the 1890s. After Mr. Kezar’s death, his wife and daughter moved to San Francisco where they acquired a considerable inheritance from Mrs. Kezar’s brother and donated the Kezar Sports Stadium in that city and the Memorial Library in Romeo. H. R. Whitfield, a New York architect specializing in library designs, developed the plan which was to imitate “an Old English Inn” and lumbterbaron Henry Stephens II donated $1,000 for books. The Romeo Observer rhapsodized in May 1910. “we imagine that when it ill partially overgrown with vines and surrounded by shrubs it will be ideally beautiful. A restful retreat for book lovers old or young, and the embodiment of all that is desirable in a library.”
