Wallace Carnegie Library

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Wallace Carnegie Library
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LocationCity Park, Wallace, Idaho
Coordinates 47°28′27″N115°55′34″W / 47.47417°N 115.92611°W / 47.47417; -115.92611 Coordinates: 47°28′27″N115°55′34″W / 47.47417°N 115.92611°W / 47.47417; -115.92611
Arealess than one acre
Built1911
Architectural styleRenaissance, English Renaissance
NRHP reference No. 81000209 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 3, 1981

The Wallace Carnegie Library, in Wallace, Idaho, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1]

It is located at 415 River St. in what is now City Park?

It is a one-story brick Carnegie library built upon a high basement in English Renaissance Revival style. Its entrance is through a portico with Ionic columns at the top of a flight of concrete steps. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Richard Briggs; Jennifer Eastman Attebery (December 24, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wallace Carnegie Library". National Park Service . Retrieved December 20, 2019. With accompanying photo from 1978