Eureka Carnegie Library

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Eureka Carnegie Library
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Location 520 N. Main
Eureka, Kansas
Coordinates 37°49′29″N96°17′23″W / 37.82472°N 96.28972°W / 37.82472; -96.28972 Coordinates: 37°49′29″N96°17′23″W / 37.82472°N 96.28972°W / 37.82472; -96.28972
Area less than one acre
Built 1914 (1914)
Built by Teegardin, George E.
Architect Washburn, George P., Co.
Architectural style Classical Revival, Neo-Classical
MPS Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference # 88001170 [1]
Added to NRHP August 10, 1988

The Eureka Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 520 N. Main in Eureka, Kansas. The library was built in 1914 through a $9,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. The George P. Washburn Co. designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The red brick library has a facade with three bays. The library's main entrance is within a projecting pavilion topped by a keystone and two voussoirs; the doorway once had a transom which has since been covered. A limestone entablature encircles the building, and the windows feature brick lintels with limestone keystones. [2]

Carnegie library library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie: 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929

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Eureka, Kansas City and County seat in Kansas, United States

Eureka is a city and county seat of Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,633, the 2015 census estimate declined to 2,450.

Kansas State of the United States of America

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita, with its most populated county being Johnson County. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north; Missouri on the east; Oklahoma on the south; and Colorado on the west. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 1988. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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