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Greensburg Carnegie Public Library

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
95000701

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Built
  
1904 (1904)

Opened
  
1904

Added to NRHP
  
9 June 1995

Greensburg Carnegie Public Library

Location
  
114 N. Michigan Ave., Greensburg, Indiana

Similar
  
Historical Society of Decatur, Decatur County Courthouse, Kirklin Public Library, Union City Public Library, Thorntown Public Library

Greensburg Carnegie Public Library, also known as Greensburg City Hall, is a historic Carnegie library located at Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana. It was built in 1904, and is a one-story, cruciform plan, tan brick building in the Classical Revival style. It is topped by a red terra cotta tiled gable roof and central drum and saucer dome. It features a projecting front portico supported by paired Ionic order columns. Its construction and furnishing was funded by a $15,000 grant provided by Andrew Carnegie.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

References

Greensburg Carnegie Public Library Wikipedia