Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

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
Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library is located in Kansas
Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library
Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library is located in the United States
Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library
Location132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas
Coordinates38°12′39″N 98°12′24″W / 38.21078°N 98.20667°W / 38.21078; -98.20667
Arealess than one acre
Built1917 (1917)
ArchitectStookey, R. W.
Architectural styleJacobethan
MPSCarnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference No.87000969[1]
Added to NRHPJune 25, 1987

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ 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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