Manti Carnegie Library

Built in 1910-11, the Manti Carnegie Library was one of 23 Carnegie Libraries in Utah and one of over 1650 library buildings in the United States funded by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie paid the entire cost of the building on the condition that the town provide the land, books, librarian, and an annual maintenance budget. Although many small towns found it financially difficult to maintain their new libraries, Carnegie libraries were generally beneficial to their communities by improving and expanding library services and by establishing standards of library operation and building design used for many years in new libraries elsewhere. The Manti Carnegie Library was designed by Watkins and Birch, a Provo, Utah based architectural firm that actively pursued Carnegie Library contracts throughout the state and designed several other library buildings, and the construction contract went to Frederickson and Son, a local firm. The old Council House was demolished to make way for the library.

Manti, Utah · United States