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Monroe Carnegie Library

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
78000025

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Built
  
1917 (1917)

Opened
  
1917

Added to NRHP
  
8 March 1978

Monroe Carnegie Library

Location
  
200 E. 6th St., Bloomington, Indiana

Similar
  
Blair‑Dunning House, Joseph Mitchell House, Millen House, Honey Creek School

Monroe Carnegie Library, also known as Old Monroe Carnegie Library, is a historic Carnegie library located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. It was built in 1917, and is a one-story, rectangular, Neoclassical style limestone building on a raised basement. The building measures approximately 50 feet by 40 feet, and has a two-story concrete block addition built in 1955. It features arched windows and a projecting arched entryway topped by a pagoda style roof. It was constructed with a $31,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. The building houses a local history museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

Monroe Carnegie Library Wikipedia


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