Museums, galleries & stages / Troy Civic Center
Troy Public Library
Troy's city library, at Big Beaver Road and I-75 in the Troy Civic Center since 1971.
01 / The story of this place
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Troy's first library opened in September 1962 in two rooms at Troy High School, with 1,000 books. As the city boomed it moved to a storefront on Square Lake Road and then to Rochester Road. Ground was broken for the current building on January 24, 1970, and it opened on May 16, 1971. Marguerite Hart, the first children's librarian, wrote to famous people asking them to send a message to Troy's kids, and got 97 replies, including Dr. Seuss, E.B. White and Ronald Reagan. After a 1985 expansion, the library was ranked number one in Michigan among libraries serving 50,000 or more in 2004.
- Letters to the Children of Troy: 97 letters from famous people, collected in 1970
- Fine-free since 2022
- Its own Bookmobile
- Live chat help even after the building closes
- Laptops to borrow for in-library use
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Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-10-23
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
03 / Events
Events at this place
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Oct 22, 2026, 6:00 PMLecture: Detroit Was Wild About Harry (Houdini)
Jeremy Dimick, the Detroit Historical Society's Director of Collections and Curatorial, gives a talk on Harry Houdini's Detroit shows on Thursday, October 22, at 6 p.m. at Troy Public Library in Troy. It's free and lands on the 100th anniversary of Houdini's death.
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