Sedalia Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Sedalia,

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. It was designed by the architecture firm

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and built in 1900. It is a two-story, cruciform plan,

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style wood and steel frame building with brick walls and

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and

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facing. It is seven bays wide with an open tetrastyle

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on the front facade. It was the first public library in the state of Missouri to receive a Carnegie grant for construction of a library building. The grant was $50,000. (includes 12 photographs from 1978) It was listed on the

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in 1980. The Sedalia Public Library continues operation after over 100 years in the same historic facility; modern amenities include computers and public fax machine.

References

External links

Sedalia Public Library website
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