The Amelia S. Givin Free Library is a historic
public library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants.
There are ...
in
Mount Holly Springs,
Cumberland County Cumberland County may refer to:
Australia
* Cumberland County, New South Wales
* the former name of Cumberland Land District, Tasmania, Australia
Canada
*Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
United Kingdom
*Cumberland, historic county
*Cumberlan ...
,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on August 11, 2004.
History
The library was built in 1889 and was dedicated on January 2, 1890.
The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2004.
Architecture
It was designed by
Richardsonian Romanesque
Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...
student James T. Steen
and is faced with Hummelstown brownstone.
[Advertising Booklet published by the Hummelstown Brownstone Co. p.27, circa 1907] Design elements include intricate carvings, semicircular arched windows, crescent apse and moorish fretwork. The Amelia S. Givin Free Library "contains the most extensive and most elaborate installation of moorish fretwork still in existence today".
See also
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
References
External links
*
Amelia S. Givin Free Library
Library buildings completed in 1889
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Romanesque Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
1890 establishments in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
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