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The Carnegie Library, North Monroe
Branch, was designed by noted Spokane architect Albert Held and built in
1914. In 1912 Andrew Carnegie promised $70,000 for
construction of two permanent branches in Spokane. The Library Board and the
City Council disagreed on where the new buildings should be located, and
the compromise that emerged was that the money would be used for three
branches. Of the $70,000, $17,500 was allocated for the
construction of the North Monroe Branch. It served the community
until 1967, when the city sold it to the local chapter of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. They used it as a meeting hall, lounge and bingo
parlor. The North Monroe Branch is listed on the National
Register, together with three other Carnegie Libraries in Spokane, as
part of a larger state-wide multiple property nomination.
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