Louis J. Bailey Branch Library-Gary International Institute | |
Location: | 1501 W. Madison St., Gary, Indiana |
Coordinates: | 41.5875°N -87.3411°W |
Architect: | Frank A. Wickes |
Builder: | Marcellus Gerometta |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | September 29, 2004 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 04001102 |
The Louis J. Bailey Branch Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Gary, Indiana. It was built in 1918, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building on a raised basement. It has a slate gable roof and projecting entrance block with Corinthian order pilasters. The building was constructed with a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Beginning in 1919, it housed the Gary International Institute in the building's basement. The branch closed about 1963.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as the Louis J. Bailey Branch Library-Gary International Institute.