The Lyndon Carnegie Library, located at 127 E. Sixth in

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, is a

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-style Carnegie library which was built in about 1911. It was listed on the

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in 1987. It is a one-story, brick and

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building about in plan, and faces south. It was funded by an $8,000 Carnegie Foundation grant. With .

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