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United States historic place


Kewanee Public Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	102 S. Tremont Kewanee, Illinois
Coordinates	41°14′43″N 89°55′34″W / 41.24528°N 89.92611°W / 41.24528; -89.92611
Area	less than one acre
Built	1907 (1907)-08
Built by	Nels Granquist, Peter Swanson
Architect	Patton and Miller
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Illinois Carnegie Libraries MPS
NRHP reference No.	06000447
Added to NRHP	May 31, 2006

The Kewanee Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 102 South Tremont Street in Kewanee, Illinois. The library was built in 1907–08 to house the city's public library, which was formed in 1875 and had previously occupied a room in the town hall. The city's first attempt at building a Carnegie library came in 1901, but it could not secure funding to match Carnegie's $20,000 grant; later in the decade, it approved additional community funding and convinced Carnegie to supply an additional $5,000. Chicago architects Patton & Miller, who were well known for their work on Carnegie libraries, designed the Classical Revival building. The library's design includes an entrance flanked by four stone columns and topped by a portico, stone pilasters to either side of the front windows, and a classical entablature with a frieze and dentillated cornice.

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 2006.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
Sayers, John E. (January 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Kewanee Public Library" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved February 27, 2016.

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