The Library Park Historic District in

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, was listed on the

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in 1979. The listing included 21

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and a

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on . It includes a Carnegie library, the Carnegie Public Library of Las Vegas, which is a cross-plan red brick

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building with a center dome and a porticoed entrance, designed by architects Isaac H. Rapp and William M. Rapp. With It includes the Immaculate Conception Church (1949), at the southwest corner of the library park, a creme brick Latin cross plan

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-style church which was designed by Les J. Wolmagood. It includes the

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next door to the church, at 811 6th Street, which is a

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frame house. It includes 807 N. National, a small gable-front

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house. It includes a Gothic cottage at the southwest corner of 6th and National, dating probably to around 1880.

References

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