Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas. County/parish: Rice.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 25, 1987. NRIS 87000969.

1 contributing building.

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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.

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

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