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Elliott-Carnegie Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Elliott-Carnegie Library, September 2012
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Location	415 - 1st Ave. NW, Hickory, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°43′58″N 81°20′42″W / 35.73278°N 81.34500°W / 35.73278; -81.34500
Area	less than one acre
Built	1922 (1922)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
MPS	Hickory MRA
NRHP reference No.	85000584
Added to NRHP	March 15, 1985

Elliott–Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie library building located in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. It was built in 1922, and is a small, one-story brick veneer structure in the Georgian Revival / Colonial Revival style. It was the last public library in North Carolina to receive a grant from the Carnegie Foundation that funded 2,507 such facilities worldwide. In the 1950s, it was converted for use as radio station WHKY by the Catawba Valley Broadcasting Company. It later housed an advertising and public relations firm.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Laura A. W. Phillips and Jerry L. Cross (June 1983). "Elliott-Carnegie Library" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.

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