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Downs Carnegie Library

Coordinates: 39°30′14″N 98°32′40″W / 39.50389°N 98.54444°W / 39.50389; -98.54444 (Downs Carnegie Library)
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Downs Carnegie Library
Downs Carnegie Library is located in Kansas
Downs Carnegie Library
Location504 Morgan Ave
Downs, Kansas[2]
Coordinates39°30′14″N 98°32′40″W / 39.50389°N 98.54444°W / 39.50389; -98.54444 (Downs Carnegie Library)
Arealess than one acre
Built1906
Built byJ.M. Kennedy
ArchitectA. T. Simmons
MPSCarnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference No.87000966[1]
Added to NRHPJune 25, 1987

The Downs Carnegie Library in Downs, Kansas is a Carnegie library which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

History

A library association was organized in 1903 to seek a Carnegie Foundation grant. It received a $6,140 grant in 1905.[3]

The one-story red brick building was designed by architect A.T. Simmons of Bloomington, Illinois in an eclectic style. It has a raised rusticated limestone block foundation. It was completed around 1906, and is about 50 by 30 feet (15.2 m × 9.1 m) in plan.[3]

It was listed on the National Register as part of a study on Carnegie libraries in Kansas.[4]

As of 2022, it is still the Downs public library.

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System – (#87000966)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Library Locations". Solomon Valley Highway 24 Heritage Alliance. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  3. ^ a b Martha Gray Hagedorn (April 2, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Downs Carnegie Library". National Park Service. Retrieved April 7, 2022. With accompanying pictures
  4. ^ KSHS: Downs Carnegie Library

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