The Prescott Public Library is the public library in
Prescott, Arizona.
The
original Prescott Public Library was a
Carnegie library at 125 E. Gurley Street, which is now an office building. It was the first Carnegie library in Arizona. This building was listed on the U.S.
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 ...
in 1975.
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The current library location at 215 E. Goodwin Street was built in 1974
and renovated in 2006. The library sees nearly half a million visitors a year.
Modern library
The current library, built in 1974, is part of the Yavapai Library Network. The library has a vast collection of books, audiobooks on CD, magazines, DVDs, CDs and video games, as well as e-books, e-magazines and downloadable audiobooks.
The library is decorated with murals depicting Prescott's history that were completed in 2009.
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In 2014, working in conjunction with the Tribute Fence Preservation Project and the State Library's Arizona Memory Project, the library opened a digital museum of objects left by visitors paying tribute to the 19 fallen Granite Mountain Hotshots after the ]Yarnell Hill Fire
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived—he was pos ...
. The digital collection contains over 10,380 items.
References
External links
Prescott Public Library
official site
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Library buildings completed in 1903
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona
Buildings and structures in Prescott, Arizona
Carnegie libraries in Arizona
Education in Yavapai County, Arizona
1903 establishments in Arizona Territory
National Register of Historic Places in Prescott, Arizona