Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 78000025 | Built 1917 (1917) Opened 1917 Added to NRHP 8 March 1978 | |
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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.
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