This blog represents a collection of postcards that focuses on libraries in the United States and throughout the world.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Public Library, Gilroy, California
[LIB4839] - Website
Currently houses the Gilroy Historical Museum. The Gilroy Carnegie library was the first of William H. Weeks' seven "classic Carnegies" of the Greek temple style, with pediments and columns. The interior is recognized for its central octagonal rotunda and patented skylight. At the corner of Fifth and Church streets in a tree shaded residential neighborhood, it is located near the historic downtown. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [For more, click here]
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Carnegie library,
Gilroy
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