Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

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.[2]

Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library
Location132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas
Coordinates38.21078°N 98.20667°W / 38.21078; -98.20667
Arealess than one acre
Built1917 (1917)
ArchitectStookey, R. W.
Architectural styleJacobethan
MPSCarnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference No.87000969[1]
Added to NRHPJune 25, 1987

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Hagedorn, Martha Gray (April 15, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Sterling Free Public (Carnegie) Library". National Park Service. Retrieved May 26, 2013.


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