Downs Carnegie Library | |
Coordinates: | 39.5039°N -98.5444°W |
Location: | 504 Morgan Ave Downs, Kansas[1] |
Built: | 1906 |
Builder: | J.M. Kennedy |
Added: | June 25, 1987 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Mpsub: | Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR |
Refnum: | 87000966 |
The Downs Carnegie Library in Downs, Kansas is a Carnegie library which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
A library association was organized in 1903 to seek a Carnegie Foundation grant. It received a $6,140 grant in 1905.[2]
The one-story red brick building was designed by architect A. T. Simmons of Bloomington, Illinois in an eclectic style. It has a raised rusticated limestone block foundation. It was completed around 1906, and is about NaNfeet in plan.[2]
It was listed on the National Register as part of a study on Carnegie libraries in Kansas.[3]
As of 2022, it is still the Downs public library.