Greensburg Carnegie Public Library

United States historic place


Greensburg Carnegie Public Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Greensburg Carnegie Public Library, November 2010
39°20′23″N 85°29′9″W / 39.33972°N 85.48583°W / 39.33972; -85.48583
Area	less than one acre
Built	1904 (1904)
Architect	Harris, William; Shopbell, Clifford, et al.
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	95000701^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 9, 1995

Greensburg Carnegie Public Library, also known as Greensburg City Hall, is a historic Carnegie library located at Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana. It was built in 1904, and is a one-story, cruciform plan, tan brick building in the Classical Revival style. It is topped by a red terra cotta tiled gable roof and central drum and saucer dome. It features a projecting front portico supported by paired Ionic order columns. Its construction and furnishing was funded by a $15,000 grant provided by Andrew Carnegie.^[2]^{: 5–6, 9}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]

The library operates today under the name Greensburg-Decatur County Public Library.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-01. Note: This includes Van P. Batterton and Paul Diebold (February 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Greensburg Carnegie Public Library" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-08-01. and Accompanying photographs.
^ "Indiana public library directory" (PDF). Indiana State Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018.