Carnegie Free Public Library

27 1st Ave., SE, Watertown, South Dakota. County/parish: Codington.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 18, 1976. NRIS 76001724.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Kampeska Heritage Museum

From Wikipedia:

Codington County Heritage Museum

The Codington County Heritage Museum (formerly the Kampeska Heritage Museum) is a museum located at 27 First Avenue Southeast, Watertown, South Dakota, in the Carnegie Free Public Library building.

The Carnegie Library was built in Watertown in 1906 through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation and functioned as a library until 1967 when operations moved to a new building further east in town next to what was then the newly built Watertown Senior High School. A youth group briefly occupied the Carnegie Library building before its use by the Codington County Historical Society.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93204667

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