Carnegie Free Library (Connellsville, Pennsylvania)

	Carnegie Free Library
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Carnegie Free Library, May 1989
Location	S. Pittsburgh St., Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°0′56″N 79°35′19″W / 40.01556°N 79.58861°W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1901
Built by	Nixon, J.A.
Architect	McCollum, J.M.
NRHP reference No.	81000542
Added to NRHP	October 8, 1981

Carnegie Free Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was designed and built in 1901, with funds partly provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie provided $50,000 toward the construction of the Connellsville library. The grant was commissioned by Carnegie on April 22, 1899; it was the 13th library that he commissioned in America. It is a two-story Ohio buff stone structure with basement in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The exterior features a terra cotta cornice and red Spanish tile roof. It measures 92.2 feet (28.1 m) by 74.6 feet (22.7 m).^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-01-24. Note: This includes Caller, Carmel (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Carnegie Free Library" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-23.

External links[edit]

Media related to Carnegie Free Library (Connellsville, Pennsylvania) at Wikimedia Commons

Carnegie Free Library website
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-5476, "Carnegie Free Library, 299 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA", 10 photos, 29 data pages, 1 photo caption page

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-01-24. Note: This includes Caller, Carmel (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Carnegie Free Library" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-23.

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