Ottawa Library

Ottawa Library - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Ottawa Library is a Carnegie library located at the intersection of 5th and Main Streets in Ottawa, Kansas. Built in 1903, the library housed the collection of the Ottawa Library Association, which was founded in 1873. The Carnegie Foundation provided a $15,000 grant toward the library's construction. George P. Washburn, a prominent Kansas architect who lived in Ottawa, designed the library in a free classical style. The two-story yellow brick building has a limestone foundation and a hipped roof. The building's main entrance has a two-story portico with classical ornamentation, and the rear features a hemicycle. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1903

Source: en.wikipedia.org