Now it’s in the books.

A Long Island library with a fascinating past, marked by women’s suffrage milestones and an infamous arson incident, is now officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places after a years-long push from devoted staff.

“It’s a beautiful building and it got the recognition we all felt it deserved,” Lynbrook Library Director Robyn Gilloon told The Post of the Hugh Tallant-designed facility, which turns 100 in 2029. 3

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“It was definitely worth the effort we put in,” she added.

Longtime reference librarian Kathleen Curran gladly took on four years of grunt work to push the application through as she and staff learned several fascinating tidbits lost to history regarding the library.

The learning space owes its inception to a locally based women’s

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