Marker Inscription
Education, Social History
Historic Place
Carnegie Public Library
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About this site
Carnegie Public Library is a historic place in Tyler, Smith County, dedicated in 1979. It is one of 17 historic places documented in Smith County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 272 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.3499, -95.3020 near Tyler. The nearest cataloged historic site is Tyler Carnegie Library (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Jenkins--Harvey Super Service Station and Garage, Christ Episcopal Church, and People's National Bank Building.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2079003007. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Tyler's Carnegie Public Library was built in 1904 with a $15,000 grant awarded in 1903 from the Andrew Carnegie library fund, on condition that the city furnish the site and maintain the library. A Chicago firm designed the Italian Renaissance-style building of limestone and brick with a red tile roof, which was doubled in size by a 1936 expansion. Listed on the National Register in 1979, it now houses the Smith County Historical Society museum and archives.
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