Taylors Falls Public Library

Taylors Falls Public Library
Location Taylors Falls, Minnesota
Coordinates 45°24′10.43″N 92°39′8.84″W / 45.4028972°N 92.6524556°WCoordinates: 45°24′10.43″N 92°39′8.84″W / 45.4028972°N 92.6524556°W
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]

Taylors Falls Public Library in 1934

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
  2. ↑ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
  3. ↑ "Branch Street Library, Taylors Falls, Chisago County, MN". Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
  4. ↑ "1880s: Taylors Falls Public Library". Gateways through the Years. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
  5. ↑ "Minnesota Grant Recipients". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 2007-11-12.

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