The Exeter Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 309 S. E St. in

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. The library was built in 1916 with a $5000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation; it was one of six Carnegie libraries built in Tulare County. Exeter's library program had been started in 1910 by the city Women's Club but lacked its own building prior to the construction of the Carnegie Library. The library was designed in the

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style by A. Merrill Bowser, whose plans were selected from three designs submitted to James Bertram. The design includes a low

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, a gabled

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, and a wide entrance with panels of glass to the sides of the door. A

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motif is used in the windows and the transom above the front door. The building served as the city's library until 1976, when it became a community center. It is one of two surviving Carnegie libraries in Tulare County, the other being the Orosi Branch Library. The Exeter Public Library was added to the

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on December 10, 1990.

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* Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in California Mission Revival architecture in California Library buildings completed in 1916 Libraries in Tulare County, California Carnegie libraries in California National Register of Historic Places in Tulare County, California {{TulareCountyCA-NRHP-stub