The lumber baron, Charles Hackley financed the library in 1890. It is owned by Muskegon Public Schools and maintained by the Friends of the Hackley Public Library. The building has many beautiful features such as an Italian marble mosaic floor, a glass floor, ornate fireplaces, carvings, iron trim and antique furniture. One of the large, stained glass windows features portraits of literary giants, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Hickling Prescott.

The Hackley Public Library also owns the Torrent House across the street where genealogy records are kept. The 31-room mansion was built in 1891 at the cost of $250000.

316 W Webster Ave, 49440 Muskegon, Michigan, Phone: 231-722-8000

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