Washburn University Carnegie Library Building

Off Seventeenth St. and Washburn Ave., Topeka, Kansas. County/parish: Shawnee.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 25, 1987. NRIS 87000972.

Part of Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR (NRIS 64000195).

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

• Washburn University Carnegie Building, Education Department

From Wikipedia:

Washburn University Carnegie Library Building

The Washburn University Carnegie Library Building in Topeka, Kansas, United States, is a Carnegie library built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Washburn College, later Washburn University of Topeka, established in 1865, obtained a $40,000.00 Carnegie Library grant for its construction in 1904.

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