Eagle Grove Public Library

Iowa, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

Built in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and dedicated in 1903, this Beaux-Arts library was designed by the Des Moines firm Smith & Gage and funded by a $10,000 Carnegie Corporation grant approved in 1902. The brick structure features a distinctive conical-roofed entrance pavilion fronted by four engaged Ionic columns. The library originated from a 1901 advertising campaign by a Des Moines insurance company that donated 250 books to the town; these were initially housed in the Masonic Hall before the dedicated building was erected. After the public library relocated to a larger facility, the original building was repurposed as the Eagle Grove Historical Museum. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.