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Photograph of St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch
Photograph by Kaethesson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch is a historic Carnegie Library building located at St. It was designed by the architect Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845-1934) and built in 1902 in the Classical Revival style.”

Wikipedia article St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Buchanan County · listed in 1999 · 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.
  • Listed as. St. Joseph Public Library--Carnegie Branch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 316 Massachusetts St., St. Joseph, 64504
  • When was it listed? May 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Washington township
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. Edmond Jacques Eckel
  • National Register reference number. 99000595 - 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.

The ground it stands on

190 words

The chapter on Washington Township in History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904 names St. Joseph. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Some of the early farms in Washington township now form a part of the city of St. Joseph. The following persons are mentioned in history as having settled prior to 1840: John H. Whitehead, William Whitehead, Henr}- \\\ Hanson, James Cochran, Frederick Waymire, William Pugh, Clayborne F. Palmer, A. C. Hyde, Thomas, John and Elisha Sollars. Stephen Parker, Isaac and Michael ^liller, James G. Karnes, Alexander Fudge, Leroy Kauffman, Benjamin Williams, Jacoli (iroschon. Logan Jones, Edward Maxwell, _F)hn H. Cox, Da\id Ewing, William Sallee, Joseph Davis, George Coughern, Michael Rogers, F.

Passage source: History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904.

Washington township has three justices of the peace and one constable, who are stationed at St. Joseph. There are four post offices in the township, besides St. Joseph - Stock Yards (South St. Joseph), Vories (South Park), Inza (Hyde's Addition) and Saxton.

Passage source: History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - 190 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch between 1995 and 2020, burning about 970 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDoniphan County017-108
12 August 1999Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning55 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2018Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176117-01180-03152018-1613
15 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service28
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service27
16 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176389-01111-02162018-0236

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch: 19 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
St Joseph DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Farmer & Dunn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
South St Joe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buchanan 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Livestock Exchange Building0.3 miles2004
Thompson-Brown-Sandusky House0.6 miles1983
Neely Elementary School2.5 miles2014
Pony Express Stables2.9 miles1970
Jesse James House2.9 miles1980
Robidoux School3.0 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000595 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Buchanan CountyAll 63 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.