Richard W. Grant (1862-1939 in David Murphy, Edward F. Zimmer, and Lynn Meyer, comps. ''Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects''), often known as R. W. Grant, was an architect based in

Beatrice, Nebraska Beatrice () is a city in and the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, United States. Its population was 12,459 at the 2010 census. Beatrice is located approximately 25 miles south of Lincoln on the Big Blue River and is surrounded by agricultu ...

. He designed about 70 schools and at least four Carnegie libraries. A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). He went to college in Illinois but reported he was self-trained as an architect. Works include: * Samuel D. Kilpatrick House (1904-1905), 701 N. 7th, Beatrice, Nebraska, NRHP-listed *Geneva Carnegie Library (1911-1913), 1043 G, Geneva, Nebraska *

Fairfield Carnegie Library The Fairfield Carnegie Library is a historic building in Fairfield, Nebraska, and a Carnegie library. It was built in 1913 by T. J. Fowler with 6,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. With It was designed in Prairie School Pra ...

(1913), southwest corner 5th & D, Fairfield, Nebraska, NRHP-listed *

Tekamah Carnegie Library The Tekamah Carnegie Library is a historic building in Tekamah, Nebraska. It was built as a Carnegie library by L.G. Wood in 1916, and designed in Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style ...

(1914), southwest corner 13th & L, Tekamah, Nebraska, NRHP-listed *Wymore Carnegie Library (1914-1919), 1021 W B, Wymore *One or more works in

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, Beatrice, Nebraska, NRHP-listed Note: there was a different R.W. Grant, a carpenter, associated with another NRHP-listed work, the Edward M. Gregg Farm, near Jerome, Idaho.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Richard W. 1862 births 1939 deaths People from Beatrice, Nebraska Architects from Nebraska 20th-century American architects