Newark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library
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Newark Valley Municipal Building and Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library is a historic municipal building and library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...

 building located at Newark Valley
Newark Valley (village), New York
Newark Valley is a village in Tioga County, New York, USA. The population was 1,071 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Binghamton Metropolitan Statistical Area...

 in Tioga County, New York
Tioga County, New York
As of the census of 2010, there were 51,125 people residing in the county, with 22,203 housing units, of these 20,350 occupied, 1,853 vacant. The population density was 98 people per square mile...

. The municipal building is a -story brick building with a cut stone foundation and full basement built in 1887 as the Union Free School and Academy. A 2-story, 45-foot rear wing was completed in 1904, and the building was altered for its current use in 1931. The library building was constructed in 1908 and is a small 1-story brick building in a cruciform plan. The roof features red terra cotta
Terra cotta
Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta is a clay-based unglazed ceramic, although the term can also be applied to glazed ceramics where the fired body is porous and red in color...

 tiles and is crowned with a three stage tower with a steep pyramidal roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 2006.
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