Carnegie Free Library (Gaffney, South Carolina)
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Carnegie Free Library, September 2012
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| Location | 210 N. Limestone St., Gaffney, South Carolina |
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| Area | less than one acre |
| Architect | Hamby, Arthur W.; Miller, S.A. |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 00000587[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 2, 2000 |
Carnegie Free Library, now known as the Cherokee County Administration Building, is a historic Carnegie library building located at Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1913-1914, and is a one-story over raised basement, rectangular red brick Classical Revival style building. It has a gently pitched standing seam metal roof and a brick parapet. In 1937, it was doubled in size by a rear addition. It as one of 14 public libraries built in South Carolina between 1903 and 1916 with funding from Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Foundation, and was Gaffney's first public library.[2][3]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
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- Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
- Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
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- Buildings and structures in Cherokee County, South Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, South Carolina
- Gaffney, South Carolina
- South Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
