Oregon City Carnegie Library Oregon City, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
Oregon City Carnegie Library has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000180
- Date Listed
- May 15, 2014
- Name
- Oregon City Carnegie Library
- Other Names
- Oregon City Public Library
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 606 John Adams St.
- City/Town
- Oregon City
- County
- Clackamas
- State
- Oregon
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- SOCIAL HISTORY; EDUCATION; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The locally significant Oregon City Public Library is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A: Education; Criterion A: Social History; and Criterion C: Architecture. The library is significant as an excellent example of a Carnegie Library, a public library constructed with funds provided by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and designed with guidance from Mr. Carnegie's representative, James Bertam, to provide educational opportunities to the local public. The library is also an excellent example of a public building constructed in the American Renaissance style with Georgian details. The building's Period of Significance is 1913, the date of construction, through 1962, the year prior to a renovation that added an unsympathetic addition. That addition has subsequently been removed and the building now retains the appearance it had through the first 50 years of its existence.
