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Goodland Carnegie Library
The Carnegie Arts Center, formally the Carnegie Library, was built in 1913 by Fred Hunt. It was built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style and is a one story building over a half-raised full basement. Eight steps lead up to the front doors and are bordered by two short ionic columns that stand on pedestals. Originally the Goodland Public Library, it was one of fifty-nine Carnegie Libraries in Kansas. For 60 years it served, as the public library until 1973 when the new library was built. From 1975-1988, it was the Senior Citizens Center and finally became the arts center in 1983. Today, it looks much the way it did when built in 1913 with one main difference being the installation for a mechanical lift. In 1985, because of its significance in architecture, the building was added to the National and State Registers of Historic Places.
120 W 12th Street in Goodland, Kansas
