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Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
87000969

Architectural style
  
Jacobethan

Built
  
1917 (1917)

Opened
  
1917

Added to NRHP
  
25 June 1987

Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

Location
  
132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas

MPS
  
Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR

The Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 132 N. Broadway in Sterling, Kansas. The library was built in 1916 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation and housed Sterling's library association, which formed in 1902. Architect R. W. Stookey of George P. Washburn & Co. designed the library in the Jacobethan style. The one-story red brick building features a cross gable roof. The main entrance is in a projecting gabled pavilion; its doorway has a quoined limestone surround. The frieze over the doorway and a date tablet in the entrance's gable are also made of limestone.

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.

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Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library Wikipedia