Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library | |
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| Location | 24 E. Main St., Mount Pleasant, Utah |
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| Coordinates | 39°32′48″N111°27′14″W / 39.54667°N 111.45389°W Coordinates: 39°32′48″N111°27′14″W / 39.54667°N 111.45389°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1917 |
| Built by | Bent R. Hansen, August Larsen, and John Stansfield |
| Architect | Ware & Treganza |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| MPS | Carnegie Library TR |
| NRHP reference # | 84000152 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 25, 1984 |
The Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library, at 24 E. Main St. in Mount Pleasant, Utah, was built as a Carnegie library in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, in the United States. Mt. Pleasant is known for its 19th-century main street buildings, for being home to Wasatch Academy, and for being the largest city in the northern half of the county. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,260.
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji.
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property.
It was designed by architects Ware & Treganza in Prairie School style. [2]
Ware & Treganza was a leading American architectural firm in the intermountain west during the late 19th and early 20th century. It was a partnership of Walter E. Ware and Alberto O. Treganza and operated in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie landscape.
It is the only Carnegie library without a centered front door; consistent with Prairie Style the entrance is instead indirect, in this case through sides of a bay projecting to the front. [2]
It was built by local contractors Bent R. Hansen, August Larsen, and John Stansfield. [1]
