Sedalia Public Library

Sedalia Public Library

Sedalia Public Library, September 2013
Location 311 W. 3rd St., Sedalia, Missouri
Coordinates 38°42′30″N 93°13′50″W / 38.70833°N 93.23056°W / 38.70833; -93.23056Coordinates: 38°42′30″N 93°13′50″W / 38.70833°N 93.23056°W / 38.70833; -93.23056
Area less than one acre
Built 1900 (1900)
Architect Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge; Maurus,Russel & Garden
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 80002389[1]
Added to NRHP January 10, 1980

Sedalia Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. It was designed by the noted architecture firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1900. It is a two-story, cruciform plan, Greek Revival style wood and steel frame building with brick walls and limestone and terra cotta facing. It is seven bays wide with an open tetrastyle Ionic order portico on the front facade. It was the first public library in the state of Missouri to receive a Carnegie grant for construction of a library building. The grant was $50,000.[2]:3, 5

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Noelle Soren and Donald G. Morton (September 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Sedalia Public Library" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 12 photographs from 1978)


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