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Built in 1914-1915, the Ephraim Carnegie Library is one of 23 Carnegie Libraries in Utah and one of over 1650 library buildings in the United States founded by millionaire and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie donated the entire cost of the building on the condition that the town provide the land, books, librarian, and an annual maintenance budget. A library program in Ephraim began as early as about 1880, when a group of ambitious young men established a small library in a rented room in the house of John F. F. Dorius. Later, the city council took over operation of the library and provided a room in the old City Hall until construction of the Carnegie Library in 1914. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Watkins, Birch and Wright of Provo, and the contractors were Hans Petersen, A.C. Nielson, and Thor Monsen, partners in a local construction firm.
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