Sedalia Public Library

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Sedalia Public Library
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Location311 W. 3rd St., Sedalia, Missouri
Coordinates 38°42′30″N93°13′50″W / 38.70833°N 93.23056°W / 38.70833; -93.23056 Coordinates: 38°42′30″N93°13′50″W / 38.70833°N 93.23056°W / 38.70833; -93.23056
Arealess than one acre
Built1900 (1900)
ArchitectShepley, Rutan & Coolidge; Maurus, Russel & Garden
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference # 80002389 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 10, 1980

Sedalia Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. It was designed by the architecture firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1900. It is a two-story, cruciform plan, Greek Revival style wood and steel frame building with brick walls and limestone and terra cotta facing. It is seven bays wide with an open tetrastyle Ionic order portico on the front facade. It was the first public library in the state of Missouri to receive a Carnegie grant for construction of a library building. The grant was $50,000. [2] :3, 5

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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Sedalia, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Sedalia is a city located approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of the Missouri River and, as the county seat of Pettis County, Missouri, United States, it is the principal city of the Sedalia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Pettis County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 21,387. Sedalia is also the location of the Missouri State Fair and the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival. U.S. Routes 50 and 65 intersect in the city.

Pettis County, Missouri County in the United States

Pettis County is a county located in west central U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 42,201. Its county seat is Sedalia. The county was organized January 24, 1833, and named after former U.S. Representative Spencer Darwin Pettis.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] The Sedalia Public Library continues operation after over 100 years in the same historic facility; modern amenities include computers and public fax machine. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Noelle Soren and Donald G. Morton (September 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Sedalia Public Library" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 12 photographs from 1978)
  3. "Library Services". Sedalia Public Library. Retrieved 5 June 2019.