Monticello Carnegie Library, also known as the White County Historical Society, is a former library in the historic Carnegie library building located at Monticello, White County, Indiana. It was built in 1907, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style buff brick building on a raised basement. It features a large limestone entrance

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and full round arched window openings. A two-story addition was built in 1957. The original building was constructed with a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. The old Monticello Carnegie Library no longer contains a

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. It functions today as the offices of the White County Indiana Historical Society. The town's present public library is the Monticello-Union Township Public Library at 321 W. Broadway St.

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Carnegie libraries in Indiana Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Neoclassical architecture in Indiana Library buildings completed in 1907 Buildings and structures in White County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in White County, Indiana {{WhiteCountyIN-NRHP-stub