The Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 132 N. Broadway in Sterling, Kansas. The library was built in 1916 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation and housed Sterling's library association, which formed in 1902. Architect R. W. Stookey of George P. Washburn & Co. designed the library in the Jacobethan style. The one-story red brick building features a cross gable roof. The main entrance is in a projecting gabled pavilion; its doorway has a quoined limestone surround. The frieze over the doorway and a date tablet in the entrance's gable are also made of limestone.[2]
Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library | |
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| Location | 132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas |
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| Coordinates | 38°12′39″N 98°12′24″W / 38.21078°N 98.20667°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1917 |
| Architect | Stookey, R. W. |
| Architectural style | Jacobethan |
| MPS | Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000969[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 25, 1987 |
The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Hagedorn, Martha Gray (April 15, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Sterling Free Public (Carnegie) Library". National Park Service. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
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