Cook Memorial Library (Libertyville, Illinois)

	Ansel B. Cook Home
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	413 N. Milwaukee Ave.,; Libertyville, Illinois
Coordinates	42°17′14″N 87°57′19″W / 42.28722°N 87.95528°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1921
Architect	Ansel B. Cook
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	01000867
Added to NRHP	August 16, 2001

The Cook Memorial Library, also known as the Ansel B. Cook House, is a historic house museum in Libertyville, Illinois, United States. It was built as a Victorian house for contractor and politician Ansel B. Cook in 1878. In his will Cook donated the home to be used as a public library, although it remained for many years the residence of Cook's longer-lived widow. After Emily Barrows Cook's death, the building received a major Neoclassical renovation that converted it into a library, opening to the public in 1921.^[2]

By the 1960s the library had outgrown the space available, and voters approved a referendum to construct a new library. The new facility of what is now the Cook Memorial Public Library District opened directly behind the Cook House in 1968.^[3]

The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1] Today the Libertyville–Mundelein Historical Society operates the house as a Victorian house museum.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "The Ansel B. Cook House". Libertyville–Mundelein Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
^ Pantle, Gabriella (February 2012). "Cook Memorial Library History" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-12-31. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

Media related to Ansel B. Cook House at Wikimedia Commons

Ansel B. Cook House

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[LMHS-2] "The Ansel B. Cook House". Libertyville–Mundelein Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-12-31.

[3] Pantle, Gabriella (February 2012). "Cook Memorial Library History" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-12-31. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)^{[permanent dead link‍]}

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