
This is the oldest Carnegie Library and the second-oldest public library in the state. Long and low, it is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential Prairie Style designs but has tall windows, bracketed eaves, and a formidable front entrance canopy with heavy brackets of a type that suggests Chinese inspiration. The building’s interiors are largely intact, with plaster walls and dark wood trim and a multi-paned skylight recessed into the ceiling of the entrance vestibule.