Carnegie Free Library (Gaffney, South Carolina)


Carnegie Free Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Carnegie Free Library, September 2012
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Location	210 N. Limestone St., Gaffney, South Carolina
Coordinates	35°4′25″N 81°38′54″W / 35.07361°N 81.64833°W / 35.07361; -81.64833Coordinates: 35°4′25″N 81°38′54″W / 35.07361°N 81.64833°W / 35.07361; -81.64833
Area	less than one acre
Architect	Hamby, Arthur W.; Miller, S.A.
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP Reference #	00000587^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 2, 2000

Carnegie Free Library, now known as the Cherokee County Administration Building, is a historic Carnegie library building located at Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1913-1914, and is a one-story over raised basement, rectangular red brick Classical Revival style building. It has a gently pitched standing seam metal roof and a brick parapet. In 1937, it was doubled in size by a rear addition. It as one of 14 public libraries built in South Carolina between 1903 and 1916 with funding from Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Foundation, and was Gaffney's first public library.^[2]^[3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Carnegie Free Library, Cherokee County (210 N. Limestone St., Gaffney)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
↑ Jean and Dale Ogden (November 1999). "Carnegie Free Library" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.

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