Carnegie Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The former Carnegie Library in Danville, Kentucky, is a building on the Centre College campus. Built in 1913 as a Carnegie library, with designs by Grant C Miller of Chicago.”
Wikipedia article Carnegie Library (Danville, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Center College campus, Danville, 40422
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Danville MRA
Census division. Danville
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 86000645 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carnegie Library in 1998, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 November 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carnegie Library: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Danville Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hayden Vein	Barium-Barite, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Sphalerite
Sandidge Veins	Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Barite, Fluorite

Every working recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danville, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 21 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	$50,000	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	$15,000	Local law enforcement noted that a tree fell on two homes in Danville. Nearby, a couple of minutes later, a spotter observed marble sized hail and numerous small limbs down along Silvercreek Drive.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	$10,000	The Boyle County emergency manager reported several trees and power lines downed across Danville.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	$2,000	The local emergency manager reported trees and power lines down across Danville.
December 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Danville	-	The tornado began near Morning Pointe of Danville along Perryville Road just south of Millennium Park, where significant roof damage occurred to a church and a gas station. Several trees were also uprooted and snapped at this location. The tornado continued through neighborhoods along West Lexington Avenue where tree and roof damage occurred. The tornado continued to produce tree and roof damage to homes between Caldwell Manor and Bellvue Cemetery before crossing Highway 2168. The tornado continued near Waterworks Road with destruction of a barn and roof damage to a residence nearby,. No damage was observed beyond Waterworks Road.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	A tree was reported down near the intersection of High Street and Fifth Street.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Broadcast media relayed a video of a tree down near Danville.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	The media reported that trees were down in Danville.
April 2015	Hail	Danville	-	Trained spotters reported quarter size hail in Danville.
April 2015	Hail	Danville	-	Hail stones as large as 3 were reported by the public and confirmed by social media pictures in Danville.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	The Boyle County emergency manager reported numerous trees down across the county.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	A Boyle County law enforcement official reported that several trees were down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
December 2015	Flood	Danville	-	A Boyle County official reported to the NWS that heavy rain flooded several roads across the county.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Local media reported that a few trees were downed in Danville.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Local law enforcement reported minor rood damage and a downed power line.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Local law enforcement reported minor roof damage and a power line down.
March 2011	Hail	Danville	-	Quarter sized hail was reported via dispatch.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Several trees were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Trees were blown down throughout the town.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	Trees were blown down.
May 1995	Hail	Danville	-	Dispatch reported three-quarters inch hail.
July 2014	Hail	Danville	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Danville	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Danville	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	no account filed
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	no account filed
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Danville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
The Norton Center for the Arts	under 500 feet	2023
Confederate Monument in Danville	under 500 feet	1997
First Presbyterian Church	0.1 miles	1986
Old Centre, Centre College	0.2 miles	1972
St. Mildred's Court-West Lexington Avenue Historic Distric t	0.3 miles	1994
McClure-Barbee House	0.3 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000645 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boyle County	All 99 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.