Carnegie Free Library (Connellsville, Pennsylvania)

Carnegie Free Library

Carnegie Free Library, May 1989
Location S. Pittsburgh St., Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°0′56″N 79°35′19″W / 40.01556°N 79.58861°W / 40.01556; -79.58861Coordinates: 40°0′56″N 79°35′19″W / 40.01556°N 79.58861°W / 40.01556; -79.58861
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built 1901
Built by Nixon, J.A.
Architect McCollum, J.M.
NRHP Reference # 81000542[1]
Added to NRHP October 8, 1981

Carnegie Free Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was designed and built in 1901, with funds partly provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie provided $50,000 toward the construction of the Connellsville library. The grant was commissioned by Carnegie on April 22, 1899; it was the 13th library that he commissioned in America. It is a two-story Ohio buff stone structure with basement in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The exterior features a terra cotta cornice and red Spanish tile roof. It measures 92.2 feet (28.1 m) by 74.6 feet (22.7 m).[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Caller, Carmel (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Carnegie Free Library" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-23.


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