Carnegie Free Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was designed and built in 1901, with funds partly provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie provided $50,000 toward the construction of the Connellsville library. The grant was commissioned by Carnegie on April 22, 1899; it was the 13th library that he commissioned in America. It is a two-story Ohio buff stone structure with basement in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The exterior features a terra cotta cornice and red Spanish tile roof. It measures by .

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Carnegie Free Library (Connellsville, Pennsylvania)

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External links

Carnegie Free Library website

Library buildings completed in 1901

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania

Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania

Carnegie libraries in Pennsylvania

Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

1901 establishments in Pennsylvania

Carnegie Free Library (Connellsville, Pennsylvania)