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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1887/00/00 A library association is organized in Clay Center, Kansas.
1909/00/00 Carnegie Corporation Benefactor Clay Center receives a $10,000.00 Carnegie Library grant.
1911/00/00 Henry B Winter Architect Henry Winter designs a two-story, brick Neo-Classical library. The rectangular structure is set on a rusticated limestone block raised foundation and is to have a low roof hidden by a parapet.
1912/00/00 Sanneman Brothers Architect Clay Center Carnegie Library is completed by the Sanneman Brothers. The grey brick building's projecting entryway pavilion is supported by brick pillars with Doris limestone capitals and Ionic limestone columns in antis.

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Particulars for Clay Center Carnegie Library:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Education
Criteria Exemplar
Education Library
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 87000933
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Winter,H.B.; Sanneman Brothers
Architectural Style: Classical revival
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Education, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: c 1912
Historic Function: Education
Historic Sub-Function: Library
Current Function: Education
Current Sub-Function: Library

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