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Stamford Carnegie Library

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1910. 600 E. McHarg St.

This Carnegie Library is one of thirty-two libraries in Texas built with Carnegie Foundation grants. Of the surviving thirteen buildings, only four still function as libraries, including this one. The two-story building of tawny brick sits over a raised basement of rock-faced limestone. The shallow front portico has a pair of Ionic columns with a brick entablature and stone pediment, and the entrance is framed by a stone entablature supported on small Ionic columns with a large arched window above.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Stamford Carnegie Library", [Stamford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SB6.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 300-300.

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