Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library
Location 132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas
Coordinates 38°12′37″N 92°12′24″W / 38.21028°N 92.20667°W / 38.21028; -92.20667Coordinates: 38°12′37″N 92°12′24″W / 38.21028°N 92.20667°W / 38.21028; -92.20667
Area less than one acre
Built 1917 (1917)
Architect Stookey, R. W.
Architectural style Jacobethan
MPS Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP Reference # 87000969[1]
Added to NRHP June 25, 1987

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]

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Hagedorn, Martha Gray (April 15, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Sterling Free Public (Carnegie) Library" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 26, 2013.


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