Glasgow Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Glasgow Public Library, also known as Lewis Library, is a historic library building located at Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1866, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick building.”
Wikipedia article Glasgow Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Howard County · listed in 1969 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW corner Market and 4th Sts., Glasgow, 65254
When was it listed? May 1969
Category. building
Township. Chariton township
National Register reference number. 69000106 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Glasgow Public Library: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Yeager Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Glasgow Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasgow, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2006	Tornado (F3)	Glasgow	$450,000	Tornado crossed from Saline county into Howard county...8 miles southwest of Glasgow at 2046 CST. F2 damage was noted to several farmsteads to the northwest of Fayette before the tornado dissipated at 2102 CST...2 miles east of Armstrong.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasgow	$75,000	Thunderstorm winds caused damage on several farms in northwestern Howard County. Several outbuildings were damaged, including a machine barn that was destroyed. A combine was damaged when part of the machine barn landed on it. Several large trees were downed, also damaging a house and a pickup truck.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasgow	$5,000	House roof damaged...several outbuildings damaged...and numerous trees down.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasgow	$5,000	A severe thunderstorm moved through the northern half of Howard county. Winds gusted up to 60 mph five miles east of Glasgow knocking down trees and destroying a utility shed.
April 2019	Flood	Glasgow	-	Ongoing flooding along the Missouri River continued through the month of April and into May. Several roads were closed near the banks of the Missouri River. This flooding began in mid March and due to upstream releases and continued periods of heavy rain the flooding continued into May. Monetary damages are unknown despite the entry indicating 0 dollars of damages.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasgow	-	Numerous large trees were down throughout the city. Utility poles were also snapped in half.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasgow	-	Power lines and large trees limbs were down.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasgow	-	Several large trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1998	Hail	Glasgow	-	Dime-size hail was reported by the public during a thunderstorm in Glasgow.
April 2014	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Glasgow	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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

5 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
Glasgow Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	1982
Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church	0.1 miles	1997
Glasgow Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	1992
Inglewood	0.4 miles	1990
Edwin and Nora Payne Bedford House	6.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000106 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Howard County	All 25 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.
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.