Ossian Wilbur Goss Reading Room

The Ossian Wilbur Goss Reading Room is a historic library building at 188 Elm Street in the Lakeport section of Laconia, New Hampshire.

Its construction was funded by a bequest from Ossian Wilbur Goss, a local doctor who had died without natural heirs.

The building officially became a branch of the Laconia library system in 1909, and continues to be administered in part by trustees of Goss's legacy.

[1] The Goss Reading Room is located in Laconia's Lakeport village, at the northwest corner of Franklin and Elm streets.

His wife and children had predeceased him, so he left a bequest instructing trustees to either adapt his house, or build a new structure, from the majority of his estate.