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The Fairfield Carnegie Library is a historic building in
Fairfield, Nebraska Fairfield is a city in Clay County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 387 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hastings, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Fairfield got its start in 1872 with the construction of the rai ...
, and a Carnegie library. It was built in 1913 by T. J. Fowler with 6,000 from the
Carnegie Corporation of New York The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establis ...
. With It was designed in
Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...
style by architect R. W. Grant. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 29, 2001.


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National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, Nebraska Library buildings completed in 1913 Carnegie libraries in Nebraska Prairie School architecture in Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub