Bloomfield Public Library is at 90 Broad Street in Bloomfield. Its origins are in the Jarvie Memorial Library, founded in 1902 by James Newbegin Jarvie at Westminster Presbyterian Church and offered to the town in 1923 along with a gift toward its future. The trustees bought the Broad Street site, a colonial brick building designed by the local architect John F. Capen opened to the public in March 1927, and the present main library opened on the same site in September 1967. The main building and the children's library are both there.
What our technicians can tell you
A 1927 brick building and a 1967 one do not dry on the same schedule, which is the practical version of Bloomfield's building history. Plaster on lath holds water behind a surface that still looks intact, and plaster sits in class 4 under the water damage standard, the specialty class that wants longer and drier air than a carpet does. A 1955 house with drywall over a slab has the opposite problem, a slab giving its water up slowly from underneath. Both are read with a meter at the same points every day, never judged by hand. Street by street, that difference is what sets the drying plan in Bloomfield.