Chapman Branch Library

The Chapman Branch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, is a Carnegie library that was funded by a $25,000 Carnegie Foundation grant and was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

Chapman Branch Library
Location577 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, Utah
Coordinates40°45′24″N 111°54′58″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1918
Built byAshton Improvement Co.
ArchitectDon Carlos Young, Jr.
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.80003918[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 1980

Description

The library was named after Annie E. Chapman, first librarian of the Salt Lake City public library system.[2]

It is an L-shaped building designed in Classical Revival architecture by architect Don Carlos Young, Jr., who also designed the layout of the University of Utah campus and a number of LDS buildings. At the time of its dedication, a Deseret News account declared it "'the beginning of the greatest social, intellectual and civic development the west side of the city has yet known.'!".[2]:5

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Chapman Branch Library". National Park Service. and accompanying photos

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