The Norfolk Carnegie Library in

Norfolk, Nebraska Norfolk ( or ) is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States, 113 miles northwest of Omaha and 76 miles southwest of Sioux City, Iowa, at the intersection of U.S. Routes 81 and 275. The population was 24,955 at the 2020 census, mak ...

is a Carnegie library which was built in 1910. It was listed on the

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in 1998. It has

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details. It was designed by Norfolk architect J.C. Stitt and built by contractor L.H. Woerth. It is a one-story brick building with cream sandstone trimmings. It has a raised basement and a

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. With . Norfolk was one of 68 communities in Nebraska that were awarded Carnegie library grant funds.

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