North Manchester Public Library

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Old North Manchester Public Library

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| image = North Manchester Public Library.jpg

| caption = North Manchester Public Library, May 2012

| location = 204 W. Main St., North Manchester, Indiana

| coordinates = {{coord|40|59|58|N|85|46|20|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Indiana#USA

| built = {{Start date|1912}}

| architect = Miller, Grant C.

| architecture = Bungalow/craftsman

| added = March 14, 1996

| area = less than one acre

| refnum = 96000290{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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Old North Manchester Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana. It was built in 1912, and is a two-story, rectangular, American Craftsman style dark red brick building over a basement. It has a low-pitched side gable roof of red Spanish tile and wide overhanging eaves. The building corners feature massive piers with sloping sides. It was built in part with a $10,000 donation from the Carnegie Foundation.{{cite web| url = https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/welcome.html| title = Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) | publisher = Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology | format = Searchable database| accessdate = 2016-07-01}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url =https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/21af1/N/North_Manchester_Public_Library_Wabash_CO_Nom.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: North Manchester Public Library| accessdate = 2016-07-01| author=Nancy L. Hanson|format = PDF| date=November 1995}} and Accompanying photographs{{rp|5, 8}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The building no longer contains a public library; since the 1990s, it is owned by a private law firm.{{cite web | url=http://www.nman.lib.in.us/history.html | title=History | publisher=North Manchester Public Library | accessdate=15 March 2018}} The "new" North Manchester Public Library is located at 405 North Market Street.{{cite web | url=http://www.nman.lib.in.us/contact.html | title=Contact us | publisher=North Manchester Public Library | accessdate=15 March 2018}}

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