Council Grove Carnegie Library

The Council Grove Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie library at 303 W. Main Street in Council Grove, Kansas. Council Grove's library association was formed in 1876, and they were given $10,000 by Carnegie's library program for a permanent building in 1903. The library was completed circa 1917 and opened to the public the following year. Architect A. T. Simmons of Bloomington, Illinois designed the Neoclassical library; Simmons, a prolific library architect, also designed five other Carnegie libraries in Kansas. The one-story brick library features a projecting entrance with an arched transom, limestone keystones above the door and windows, brick quoins at the corners and along the entrance bay, and a wooden entablature and brick parapet along the roof.^[2] The library operated out of the building until 2003.^[3]

Council Grove Carnegie Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	303 W. Main St., Council Grove, Kansas
Coordinates	38°39′35″N 96°29′37″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1917 (1917)
Built by	Joe Axe
Architect	A. T. Simmons
Architectural style	Neoclassical
MPS	Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference No.	87000963[1]
Added to NRHP	June 25, 1987

The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987.^[1]