Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Carnegie Public Library in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a public library located at 219 East Fourth Street. The construction of the library, which opened in 1902, was funded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, whose uncle lived in East Liverpool.”
Wikipedia article Carnegie Public Library (East Liverpool, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 35 National Register listings in Columbiana County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Columbiana County.
National Register reference number.80002963- 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
32 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Carnegie Public Library between
1993 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning
13
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Smoking
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 377 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Carnegie Public Library between 1895 and
1975: 257 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Athearn, Herbert D., Beer, F.H., Bright, J. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Carnegie Public Library: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
East Liverpool, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
An NWS storm survey found a downburst occurred in Thompson Park in East Liverpool. Widespread wind damage was found with trees snapped or uprooted, some falling on houses. Maximum wind gusts were estimated at 80-90 MPH. Two minor injuries were reported, one when a tree fell on a car, and another when a vehicle drove into a downed tree.
Local media reported flash flooding on West 8th Street and surrounding streets in East Liverpool with 2 vehicles swamped and a mudslide on State Route 11.
Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. One pickup truck was damaged in the Wellsville area when large tree limbs fell on it and crushed the roof.
Trees and power lines were downed throughout the county. Fifteen miles north of East Liverpool several trees were downed and pea size hail was also reported. Three miles northwest of Georgetown, in the northwest part of the county, some large highway signs were blown down.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
From the nomination file
1,904 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
The entire building is topped with a panelled parapet at the cornice and each corner the center of the roof.It has Ionic pilasters and is topped by a tile covered with full basement.The facade of the building is reached from a three tier sidewalk.
flanked by circular windows.The entire bay is topped by a pediment with modillioned The interior is divided into a central lobby space separated from three flanking reading are in the front corners of the lobby area.There are two decorative tile modillions On the first story flanking both sides of the central bay are triple windows headed by A single story circular wing with brick corbeling and a battlement at the cornice line cornice and a central circular cartouche surrounding the date"1900." LIBRARy" across the entablature and is topped by a balustrade.A Palladin window is dome and a smaller octagonal cupola with tiled dome and a ball finial. . deteriorated the central bay. good and features the main entry way which also is surrounded by stone rustication.
The entry features an ogee roofed tower with flame finial. A large octagonal tower dominates circular balcony over the lobby and flanking reading rooms rooms by arcaded plaster walls.Two cast-iron stairways with open decorative railings in floor of the lobby.The stairs lead to the second floor which has a central above the portico and it has a decorative molded terra-cotta surround.The window is The central bay projects slightly from the remainder of the building similar to the first way is beneath a clasically detailed portico that features the words "CARNEGIE PUBLIC Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ conservation _ science - agriculture - economics .
(in one paragraph) pedimented central bay, Palladian window, and details of the Georgian style. The Post Office (National Register 11/76), the Library is among the most distinctive public 1700-1799 1600-1699 1500-1599 1800-1899 1400-1499 Period politics/government humanitarian of two architectural revivals popular for public buildings around the turn-of-the design features that add to the visual significance of the property.Along with the former century:Second Renaissance Revival and Georgian Revival.The rustication of the with numerous and impressive commissions for public buildings throughout eastern Ohio four ogee roof corner towers and large octagonal central tower and dome are additional 8. Significance law buildings in this important Ohio river city.
Specific dates and western Pennsylvania.Two of these which are already listed on the National Regi- The library was designed by Charles Henry Owsley, an English born and trained architect in 1885 and the firm became the most important in the city at the turn-of-the century School in Martins Ferry (National Register 5/79). foundation and main entrance of the Renaissance style are combined in the Library with a - archeology-prehistoric .community planning / engineering - philosophy _ industry ster. are: exploration/settlement communication Builder/Architect Charles Henry Owsley the Mahoning County Courthouse (National Register 8/74);and Central invention The Carnegie Public Library of East Liverpool is significant for its impressive blend 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002963, 16 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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