Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

United States historic place


Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

38°12′39″N 98°12′24″W / 38.21078°N 98.20667°W / 38.21078; -98.20667
Area	less than one acre
Built	1917 (1917)
Architect	Stookey, R. W.
Architectural style	Jacobethan
MPS	Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference No.	87000969^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 25, 1987

The Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 132 N. Broadway in Sterling, Kansas. The library was built in 1916 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation and housed Sterling's library association, which formed in 1902. Architect R. W. Stookey of George P. Washburn & Co. designed the library in the Jacobethan style. The one-story red brick building features a cross gable roof. The main entrance is in a projecting gabled pavilion; its doorway has a quoined limestone surround. The frieze over the doorway and a date tablet in the entrance's gable are also made of limestone.^[2]

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Hagedorn, Martha Gray (April 15, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Sterling Free Public (Carnegie) Library". National Park Service. Retrieved May 26, 2013.