The Plainview Carnegie Library in

Plainview, Nebraska Plainview is a city in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Norfolk, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,246 at the 2010 census. History The area of Plainview was first settled by William B. Chilver ...

is a Carnegie library which was built in 1916–1917. It was listed on 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 ...

in 1993. It is a one-story brick building with a raised basement. It has a

hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

with wide eaves and

modillions A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a cornice which it helps to support. Modillions are more elaborate than dentils (literally translated as small teeth). All ...

. It has

Prairie Style 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 i ...

details. It was designed by Norfolk, Nebraska architect J.C. Stitt and built by contractor Frank T. Houx. Its lower level was renovated to include a children's reading room in 1977. In 1992 the building still served as a library. With . Plainview was one of 68 communities in Nebraska that were awarded Carnegie library grant funds.

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* Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska Prairie School architecture Library buildings completed in 1917 Buildings and structures in Pierce County, Nebraska Carnegie libraries in Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub