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Larimer Memorial Library

Palatka, Italy

Larimer Memorial Library

Larimer Memorial Library is a historic library at 216 Reid Street in the city of Palatka, Putnam County, Florida, in the United States. Was occupied by the Arts Council of Greater Palatka in 1992 and renamed the Larimer Arts Center. On March 12, 2008, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Hi

storic Places. In 2025 the City of Palatka allowed the Larimer Arts Center to change management to the River City Players. It is currently the home of the River City Players community theater, the Arts Alliance of Putnam, and arts advocacy non-profit, and the Gathering Artists of Putnam LLC, a membership organization of visual artists. The library, commissioned by James Ross Mellon, a wealthy seasonal resident of the city, was constructed in 1929 at a cost of $100,000. Henry John Klutho was selected to design the structure. Mellon named the library for his wife Rachel Hughey Larimer. The library would be dedicated and donated to the City of Palatka in April 1930 in an event attended by thousands. The presidents of the University of Florida, Florida Southern College, Stetson University, and the Florida State College for Women each spoke at the ceremony. Of Klutho's surviving buildings, by...

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