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Greensburg Carnegie Public Library, also known as Greensburg City Hall, is a historic Carnegie library located at Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana. It was built in 1904, and is a one-story, cruciform plan, tan brick building in the Classical Revival style. It is topped by a red terra cotta tiled gable roof and central drum and saucer dome.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Indiana provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Indiana, where 164 public libraries were built from 156 grants (totaling $2,508,664) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1918. [1]
Decatur is a city in Root and Washington townships, Adams County, Indiana, United States. It is the county seat (and the largest community) of Adams County. [ 5 ] Decatur is home to Adams Memorial Hospital, which was designated as one of the "Top 100" Critical Access Hospitals in the United States.
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Location of Decatur County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Decatur County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Decatur County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
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The first public library in the county was opened in 1907, in Lithonia.In 1925 a larger public library was founded in Decatur, the county seat of DeKalb County.In 1952 branches of the Decatur Library were established in Brookhaven and Doraville, and the Decatur Library was renamed the Decatur-DeKalb Library. [9]
The center is located in the Beaux-Arts-style former Carnegie library. Andrew Carnegie provided a $50,000 grant for the building's construction. The building features a 35-foot (11 m) high rotunda with a 40-foot (12 m) stained glass domed ceiling and marble floors. [2] The library moved to a new facility in 1987.