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Photograph of Andrew Carnegie Library
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Andrew Carnegie Library

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Andrew Carnegie Library is a library building located in Edmonds, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was constructed in 1910 after the city received a $5,000 grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the construction of a public library.”

Wikipedia article Andrew Carnegie Library (Edmonds, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1910.

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.
  • Listed as. Carnegie, Andrew, Library - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 118 5th Ave., N., Edmonds, 98020
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR (AD); Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR
  • Census division. Edmonds
  • When was it built? 1910
  • National Register reference number. 73001887 - 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Andrew Carnegie Library: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Clay. 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
Mc AleerDiatomiteOccurrence
MeadowdaleClayPast Producer
Lynnwood Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Richmond Beach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edmonds, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 2 debris flow, 2 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2008LightningEdmonds$25,000A lightning strike started a fire that scorched a few nearby trees, and damaged a garage and a storage shed near a home in Edmonds.
November 2012Debris FlowEdmonds$2,000Mudslides effected the tracks that commuter trains travel between Everett and Seattle. Passenger trains were cancelled for 48 hours.
October 2005LightningEdmonds$2,0003 lightning strikes knocked out power to nearly 6000 homes in the Edmonds area. One strike ruptured a natural gas line which started a small fire.
January 1997Debris FlowEdmonds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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

1 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
Keeler's Korner4.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001887 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Snohomish CountyAll 52 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.