Ottawa Library (Kansas)

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Ottawa Library
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Location 1st & Hickory Sts., Ottawa, Kansas
Coordinates 38°36′15″N95°15′43″W / 38.60417°N 95.26194°W / 38.60417; -95.26194 Coordinates: 38°36′15″N95°15′43″W / 38.60417°N 95.26194°W / 38.60417; -95.26194
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1903 (1903)
Architect Washburn, George P.
Architectural style Free classical style
NRHP reference # 80001465 [1]
Added to NRHP December 1, 1980

The Ottawa Library is a Carnegie library located at the intersection of 5th and Main Streets in Ottawa, Kansas. Built in 1973, the library housed the collection of the Ottawa Library Association, which was founded in 1873. The Carnegie Foundation provided a $15,000 grant toward the library's construction. George P. Washburn, a prominent Kansas architect who lived in Ottawa, designed the library in a free classical style. The two-story yellow brick building has a limestone foundation and a hipped roof. The building's main entrance has a two-story portico with classical ornamentation, and the rear features a hemicycle. [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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Ottawa, Kansas City and County seat in Kansas, United States

Ottawa is a city in, and the county seat of, Franklin County, Kansas, United States. It is located on both banks of the Marais des Cygnes River near the center of Franklin County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,649.

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 Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. 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 December 1, 1980. [1] It is also part of the Historic Ottawa Central Business District, which is also listed on the National Register. The building no longer serves as Ottawa's library (which is now located in the downtown area), and now serves as an art and culture center.

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

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