Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library

The Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 132 N. Broadway in Sterling, Kansas, United States. The library was built in 1916 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation and housed Sterling's library association, which formed in 1902. Architect R. W. Stookey of George P. Washburn & Co. designed the library in the Jacobethan style. The one-story red brick building features a cross gable roof. The main entrance is in a projecting gabled pavilion; its doorway has a quoined limestone surround. The frieze over the doorway and a date tablet in the entrance's gable are also made of limestone.^[2]

Sterling Free Public Carnegie Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Library in 2025
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Location	132 N. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas
Coordinates	38.21078°N 98.20667°W / 38.21078; -98.20667
Area	less than one acre
Built	1917 (1917)
Architect	Stookey, R. W.
Architectural style	Jacobethan
MPS	Carnegie Libraries of Kansas TR
NRHP reference No.	87000969[1]
Added to NRHP	June 25, 1987

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