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Carnegie Public Library

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1914–1915, J. G. Ralston. South side of 2nd St., west of US 63

In June 1914 the community of Traer received a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation for the town library. By the end of July the architect J. G. Ralston of Waterloo was drafting his initial sketches for the building. The scheme provided was a conventional one: a structure on a raised basement, with steps leading up to a central entrance and reading rooms on either side. The architect's frontispiece for the building entailed a shallow pediment and accompanying entablature supported by two pairs of pilasters placed on each side of the entrance. The scale of this Beaux-Arts building is something between that of a public building and a larger domestic design.

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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Carnegie Public Library", [Traer, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-CE418.

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