National Register of Historic Places

Longmont Carnegie Library

Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado
Listed
November 3, 1992
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
92001406

About this property

The Longmont Carnegie Library, at 457 Fourth Ave. in Longmont, Colorado, is a Carnegie library which was completed in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, and was included as a contributing building in the Downtown Longmont Historic District in 2017. Its construction was funded by a $12,500 Carnegie grant given on December 13, 1907, but there were delays due to controversy in the city obtaining a site and lining up maintenance funding. A library tax proposition was voted down in 1908, but a site was acquired by the city in 1912. It is a one-story rectangular simplified-Renaissance Revival-style building. Benjamin C. Viney was its supervising architect. It served as a library until 1975. In 1992 the building served as a City Hall Annex hosting several city departments. It was deemed significant "for its social significance in association with Andrew Carnegie's nationwide public library movement beginning in 1886", and it was also deemed to have "architectural significance in its high quality materials and construction and for its Renaissance Revival design by English born Longmont architect Benjamin C. Viney, an associate of the prominent Scottish architect Thomas McLaren of Colorado Springs." McLaren designed the previously completed Carnegie library in Boulder.

Location

457 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado
40.16566, -105.10071

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When was Longmont Carnegie Library listed on the National Register?

Longmont Carnegie Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1992.

What type of historic resource is Longmont Carnegie Library?

Longmont Carnegie Library is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Longmont Carnegie Library?

The period of significance for Longmont Carnegie Library is recorded as the industrial era.

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