[2] In 2014, the Adams County Library System celebrated the building's 100th anniversary with three days of community events.
[3] During the 1860s, the original branch of the U.S. Post Office in Gettysburg was located at the west of the borough square (later the site of the 1906 First National Bank building).
[4] During his tenure as President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower also maintained an office in the building.
[5] He did so, after suffering a heart attack in September 1955, "so that the press would photograph him going to and from work, thus ensuring the American people that their president was well and on the job," according to historian Michael J.
[7] The front steps and columns along Baltimore Street (formerly the entrance) are similar to the Lincoln Memorial style of Federal architecture.