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Buildings: Miscellaneous
Carnegie Library
Opened in December 1914 at 515 Cherry St. to serve African-Americans (Knecht 4352)
Carnegie Library (East Branch)
840 E. Chandler Ave., Bayard Park; built in 1912 (Walden 1)
Carnegie Library (West Branch)
W. Franklin St.; dated 1920 (Knecht 4025)
Carnegie Library (West Branch)
Detail of exterior building ornamentation; photo dated August 1984 (6PC 32)
Courier and Press Building
201 NW Second St.; photo dated October 1985 (7PC 48)
Democratic Headquarters
W. Columbia St.; photo dated November 4, 1975 (Courier 935)
Evans Hall
Built by Saleta Evans in 1879 and dedicated to the Women's Christian Temperance Union; also used as a venue for plays, political rallies, dances, and roller skating until it was razed in the early 1930s to make room for a new library (Knecht 862)
Evans Hall
Home of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Fifth and Locust Sts.; c. 1910 (Meyer-Schlamp 125)
Evansville Public Library
Fifth and Locust Sts.; c. 1940s (Willard Library 16)
Evansville Public Library
Fifth and Locust Sts.; c. 1986 (Marchand 2415)
Fourth Street, 127 SE
Photo dated 1977 (Marchand 138)
Franklin Street, 1035 W
Originally Weber's Hall (malt house and saloon), later Carpenters' Hall, meeting place for various labor unions; built c. 1890; photo taken c. 1979 (1PC-61)
Franklin Street, 819 W
Originally the office of Dr. Reavill Walden; c. 1925 (Knecht 4016)
Furniture Building
Dedication ceremony for construction of Furniture Building (later named Court Building) at Fourth and Court Sts.; photo dated October 8, 1909 (Knecht 432)
Gas Works
View from the roof of the Fulton Ave. Brewery; photo dated January 25, 1927 (Meyer-Schlamp 130)
George Rogers Clark Memorial
Under construction in Vincennes, IN; photo dated June 18, 1932 (Knecht 4870)
George Rogers Clark Memorial
On the Wabash River in Vincennes, IN; dedicated on June 14, 1936 (Knecht 4869)
Grein Building
19-25 NW Second St. (also known as the Businessmen's Association Building and the Mercantile Bank Building); photo dated 1972 (3PC 43)
Howell Library and Hose House No. 7
Located at 3012 Dearborn; photo dated 1923 (Knecht 4024)
Hulman Building
Located on NW Fourth and Sycamore Sts., this building was constructed for Central Union Bank in 1929; in the 1930s, it became the home of the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co. (Marchand Collection)
I.O.O.F. Building
Main St., New Harmony, IN; early 1900s (Knecht 3985)
James Bethel Gresham Memorial Home
Located on Wedeking Ave. adjacent to Garvin Park; built in the 1920s by the citizens of Evansville for Alice Gresham Dodd (far right in group), mother of James Bethel Gresham, the first American casualty in World War I (Knecht 531)
North Side Library
2100 Stringtown Rd.; c. 1940s (VC 65)
Patchwork Central, Inc.
100 Washington Ave.; the tower is all that remains of the Washington Avenue Temple that was destroyed by fire; c. 1996 (17PC 2)
Skora Building
This photograph was taken in 1945, when the building was occupied by LST Shipyard personnel. (Newman Collection)
Skora Building
Looking east on Sycamore St. from NW Second St.; photo dated September 1979 (Marchand 56)
Streetcar Garage
Water St. (taken from First St.); photo dated March 27, 1927 (Meyer-Schlamp 34)
Streetcar Garage
Riverside Dr.; photo dated April 10, 1941 (Meyer-Schlamp 11)
Third Street, 326 NW
Razed in 1984 (Marchand 264)
Vanderburgh County Poor Farm
C. early 1900s (Knecht 828)
Weinbach and Lincoln Avenues
New commercial building; photo dated January 1938 (Knecht 3354)
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