New gifts fuel Ilsley roof replacement
September 11, 2025
By John Flowers
Addison Independent
Two benefactors have stepped forward with a combined $105,000 in donations that will help put a new roof on the original 1924 Ilsley Public Library building at 75 Main St.
As recently reported by the Independent, library officials reported late last month that additional deterioration discovered in the historic building’s slate-shingle roof will require the surface to be replaced, as opposed to patched. That unforeseen task — coupled with newly discovered marble damage and the need to remove a large concrete structure found buried at the front of the existing library stairs — was expected to gobble up around $300,000 of a $432,000 contingency buffer that had been built into an ongoing $17 million renovation and expansion of the Ilsley.