Colusa Carnegie Library

	Colusa Carnegie Library
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	City of Colusa Police Department, seen from 6th Street
	Colusa Carnegie Library Colusa Carnegie Library
Location	260 Sixth St., Colusa, California
Coordinates	39°12′49.11″N 122°0′35.63″W / 39.2136417°N 122.0098972°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1906
Built by	Stone, Louis S.; Smith, Henry C.
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	California Carnegie Libraries MPS
NRHP reference No.	90001816
Added to NRHP	December 10, 1990

The Colusa Carnegie Library, at 260 Sixth St. in Colusa, California, is a Carnegie library built in 1906 that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has also been known as the Carnegie Library Building and the City of Colusa Police Department.^[1]

The library was one of 13 Carnegie libraries built in the Sacramento Valley during 1903–17, and the oldest one surviving in its original appearance. It was built with $10,000 Carnegie funding for a total of $13,158. It served as library from 1906 to 1964, and as police department since 1977. It was designated a Colusa Historic Landmark in 1981, at which time features specifically noted worthy of preservation were its Sites sandstone veneer and parapet, its metal pediment and entablature upon pilasters, its segmental arched windows at the basement level, its main floor rectangular windows with transoms and its carved stone lintels with famous authors' names.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Lucy Kortum (April 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Colusa Carnegie Library / Carnegie Library Building / City of Colusa Police Department". National Park Service. and accompanying six photos

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpdoc-2] Lucy Kortum (April 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Colusa Carnegie Library / Carnegie Library Building / City of Colusa Police Department". National Park Service. and accompanying six photos

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