Taylors Falls Public Library

Taylors Falls Public Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Location:	Taylors Falls, Minnesota
Built:	1854
Architect:	John Jacob Spengler
Architectural style:	Eastlake, Victorian Gothic
Governing body:	Local
MPS:	Chisago County MRA (AD)
NRHP Reference#:	70000290^[1]
Added to NRHP:	October 15, 1970

The Taylors Falls Public Library, located at 417 Bench Street in Taylors Falls in the U.S. state of Minnesota was built by John Jacob Spengler as a tailor shop in 1854; he sewed uniforms for Union Soldiers in the Civil War, while he and his family lived in the back room of the building. The one-story two-room building features a barrel-vault ceiling in the front room and a pressed tin ceiling in the back room. Other architectural elements include Victorian Gothic pendants, spindles, and quatro-foils in an Eastlake style. In 1887 the building was sold to the Taylors Falls Library Association for use as a library.^[2]^[3]^[4] That use continues today; in 2007 the library received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which seeks to provide information technology to residents of rural communities.^[5]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
^ "Branch Street Library, Taylors Falls, Chisago County, MN". Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(MINNESOTA--Chisago+County--Taylors+Falls)). Retrieved 2007-11-12.
^ "1880s: Taylors Falls Public Library". Gateways through the Years. Minnesota Historical Society. http://nrhp.mnhs.org/property_overview.cfm?propertyID=65. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
^ "Minnesota Grant Recipients". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/UnitedStates/USLibraryProgram/Grants/Minnesota.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-12.

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