{"nrhp_refnum":"08000261","name":"Lakeport Carnegie Library","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 Park St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lakeport","county":"Lake County","state":"CA","lat":39.043220372000064,"lon":-122.91421193299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-04-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story Classical Revival (Type C) Carnegie library with a basement, built in 1918 at 200 Park Street in Library Park on the western shore of Clear Lake in Lakeport, Lake County, California.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A in education and under Criterion C in architecture, as one of the thirty-two Classical Revival Type C California Carnegie libraries completed between 1903 and 1921. Twenty-three of them are still extant. It also reflects local efforts to create a public park and a public library on filled lakefront land. Its significance is local.","narrative":"Set in Library Park on the western shore of Clear Lake, this single-story Carnegie library was completed in early 1918. It measures 28 by 52 feet, has a basement, and is covered in plaster under a hipped roof with curved modillions along the cornice. A central entrance with a fourteen-light door and decorative plasterwork anchors a symmetrical front. Funding came from a $8,000 Carnegie grant offered in 1914, on the condition that the town support the library through local taxes. Construction waited until 1917 because the dredged lakefront fill was not dry enough. The park land was deeded by waterfront owners with the right to build a public library. Local women's clubs had earlier run a small circulating library from 1906. The building is one of the twenty-three surviving Classical Revival Type C Carnegie libraries in California. It served Lakeport for about eighty years until a new library opened in 1986, and it is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1918-1921","architect_builder":"Ward and Blohme, Architect; Hinds and Randolf, Contractors","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (Type C)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The building is currently vacant and used for storage by the City of Lakeport. Alterations are minimal, limited to a replaced basement door and stairs and an added basement entry around 1950.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.735858-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/08000261.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000261/362e80e1ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000261/362e80e1ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"sporst","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnegie_Library_Lakeport_California.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">sporst</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnegie_Library_Lakeport_California.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857388","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeport_Carnegie_Library","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6478898"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/lake-county/lakeport-carnegie-library-08000261/"}