National Register of Historic Places

Givin, Amelia S., Free Library

Mt. Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Listed
August 10, 2004
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
04000841

About this property

The Amelia S. Givin Free Library is a historic public library in Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2004. The library was built in 1889 and was dedicated on January 2, 1890. The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2004. It was designed by Richardsonian Romanesque student James T. Steen and is faced with Hummelstown brownstone. Design elements include intricate carvings, semicircular arched windows, crescent apse and moorish fretwork. The Amelia S. Givin Free Library "contains the most extensive and most elaborate installation of moorish fretwork still in existence today". National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Amelia S. Givin Free Library Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

Location

114 N. Baltimore Ave.
Mt. Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
40.11637, -77.18888

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When was Givin, Amelia S., Free Library listed on the National Register?

Givin, Amelia S., Free Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 2004.

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Givin, Amelia S., Free Library is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Givin, Amelia S., Free Library is recorded as the industrial era.

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