List of Carnegie libraries in Idaho
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Idaho provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Idaho, where 11 libraries were built from 11 grants (totaling over $138,000) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1903 to 1914. As of 2010, 9 of these buildings are still standing, and 3 still operate as libraries.
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Key
Building still operating as a library
Building standing, but now serving another purpose
Building no longer standing
Building listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Building contributes to a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places
Carnegie libraries
| Library | City or town |
Image | Date granted[1] |
Grant amount[1] |
Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boise | Boise |  |
Feb 12, 1903 | $40,000 | 815 W. Washington St. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Completed 1905 |
| 2 | Caldwell | Caldwell | Apr 3, 1912 | $12,500 | 1101 Cleveland Blvd. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Completed 1914 | |
| 3 | Idaho Falls | Idaho Falls | Mar 13, 1909 | $15,000 | 200 N. Eastern Dr. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Completed 1916, now a museum | |
| 4 | Lewiston | Lewiston | Mar 27, 1903 | $10,000 | 101 5th St. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Built 1901, closed September 30, 1999 | |
| 5 | Moscow | Moscow | 100px | Jun 2, 1904 | $10,000 | 110 S. Jefferson St. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Mission Style, opened March 1906 |
| 6 | Mountain Home | Mountain Home | 100px | Dec 13, 1907 | $6,000 | 180 S. 3rd East Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Completed 1908, now a museum |
| 7 | Nampa | Nampa | Jan 18, 1907 | $10,500 | Completed 1908, burned down after the library moved in 1966 | ||
| 8 | Pocatello | Pocatello | 100px | Nov 14, 1906 | $12,000 | 113 S. Garfield Ave. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Completed 1907 |
| 9 | Preston | Preston | Mar 11, 1914 | $10,000 | Demolished June 11, 2004 | ||
| 10 | Wallace | Wallace |  |
Jan 18, 1910 | $12,000 | 415 River St. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Completed 1911 |
| 11 | Weiser | Weiser | 1919 | Paddock Ave. and Maryatt St. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Part of the Intermountain Institute (old high school). Closed when the new high school and public library were constructed in the 1960s. |
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Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references (usually Jones) without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.
