NoeHill in San Francisco
Photographs of historic sites and points of interest in San Francisco
San Francisco Landmarks
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30 January 2012
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Carnegie Library Sunset
1305 18th Avenue
Built 1918
The Sunset Carnegie Library, designed by architect Gustave Albert Lansburgh in the Classical Revival style, was the fifth of seven Carnegie branch libraries built in San Francisco.
Lansburgh drew two plans, one rectangular with interior stairs much like Mission and Noe Valley, the other octagonal. The octagonal was judged "quite impossible" and the other plan approved with slight revision.
In this version of the Classical Revival, the central entrance is recessed within a loggia formed by three tall round arches supported by two segmented Corinthian columns and two pilasters. Names of authors, many Western, are inscribed under the sills of recessed arched windows.
All seven buildings still function as libraries (see map).
Some Carnegie Free Libraries in California:
- Alameda
- Colusa
- Eureka
- Ferndale
- Gilroy
- Grass Valley
- Hanford
- Healdsburg
- Hollister
- Lincoln
- Nevada City
- Oakland - 23rd Avenue Branch
- Oakland - Alden Branch
- Oakland - Golden Gate Branch
- Oakland - Melrose Branch
- Oroville
- Patterson
- Petaluma
- Riverbank
- Sacramento
- San Francisco Chinatown Branch
- San Francisco Golden Gate Valley Branch
- San Francisco Mission Branch
- San Francisco Noe Valley Branch
- San Francisco Presidio Branch
- San Francisco Richmond Branch
- San Francisco Sunset Branch
- Santa Cruz (Garfield Park Branch)
- South San Francisco
- St. Helena
- Sonoma
- Turlock
- Willits
- Willows
- Woodland
- Yolo
- Yreka