Oxboro Library is a public library in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States. It serves the residents in the Bloomington and Richfield area. It is the second free standing library built in the city, replacing the former library that stood from 1962-1973. It opened on December 16, 1974, then was renovated in 2003-04 and again in 2018-19. The library was designed by Kilstofte Associates Architects from Wayzata, Minnesota. The total cost to build the library was $770,000 in 1975. History Originally, the only library that stood in Bloomington was located on Nicollet Ave and was called the Bloomington Library. The Bloomington Library was a remodeled supermarket turned library and opened in 1961 serving about 22,000 guests in the community. The city later outgrew the library and due to its size could no longer properly serve all of the city of Bloomington. The requests for larger and more library locations to city council and Hennepin County began only a few years after its opening. Oxboro Library sits on the site of a former two-acre dairy farm in Bloomington. Due to interest in the site for the new library, Hennepin County had offered to purchase the land from the Erasmus Bischof family, who had owned the land since 1912. The farm was condemned by the county in April 1972. The family was offered $73,800 to sell the land for future developments including the Oxboro Library. Hennepin County purchased the two acre farm for the placement of the Oxboro Library. The Bischof farm would move to Chaska, Minnesota. Today, the library sits on the old Bischof home and barn site. Naming the library The Oxboro Library name is derived from the historic neighborhood in which it is located. Four brothers named Thomas, Wallace, John, and Robert Oxborough settled in the Lyndale Avenue area. In 1910, the Dan Patch railroad was built through Bloomington and established a station on Matthew Oxborough’s land. The station was named Oxborough Heath. As more businesses were established in the area, more traffic went through the Oxborough Heath. With the increase in traffic, the name was then shortened to Oxboro. Due to the suggestion of the Oxboro Junior Federated Women’s Club, the new Bloomington library would be named Oxboro Library, using a name from the area’s history. Opening Ground was broken on September 27, 1973. The library opened on December 16, 1974. Oxboro was the first Hennepin County library designed to