The 1955 brick addition to Sayville Library featured a new main entrance, the circulation desk, public and staff restrooms, a cloak closet, the librarian's desk, a workroom and the children's library.  The white building behind the addition was the main part of the library.  It was originally the Reuben Edwards house, purchased for the library in the 1920's.  This wooden structure was razed in the '60s to make way for a bigger library.
Photograph c.1955, from the collection of Sayville Library.