Coalinga Carnegie Library

Coalinga Carnegie Library (HM17II)

Location: Coalinga, CA 93210 Fresno County
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Country: United States of America
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N 36° 8.482', W 120° 21.635'

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Built 1914 - Dismantled 1955

In took one word to describe the Coalinga Carnegie Library - "Beautiful"

Carnegie, Andrew, 1839-1919 American industrialist and philanthropist, born in Scotland.
Walter Ochs was the successful bidder at $15,797.00. The architects Swarts, Horchkin & Swarts of Fresno.
The library was sixty-five feet by fifty-five feet in size with a full basement. The basement had a cement floor, which was a lecture room, men's study room, classroom, cataloguing room and furnace room.
The main or library floor was polished oak and contained a reading room, reference room, study room, children's room, stack room and delivery room.
The roof was Spanish tile with a wide projecting cornice. There was a fireplace in the men's study room in the basement and a fireplace in the reading room on the main floor.
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HM NumberHM17II
Series This marker is part of the Carnegie Libraries series
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Date Added Sunday, September 7th, 2014 at 5:22am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10S E 737484 N 4002855
Decimal Degrees36.14136667, -120.36058333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 36° 8.482', W 120° 21.635'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds36° 8' 28.92" N, 120° 21' 38.10" W
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Area Code(s)559
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 145-199 E Durian Ave, Coalinga CA 93210, US
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