National Register of Historic Places in Sonoma County
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9 June 2026
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Healdsburg Carnegie Library
221 Matheson Street
Healdsburg
Built 1911
The old Carnegie Library was the first permanent library in Healdsburg. For more than seventy years it was the only public library in town.
The building was designed by Petaluma architect Brainerd Jones in the classical revival architectural style. It is the only civic building in Healdsburg with an impressive architectural style.
Five Carnegie libraries were built in Sonoma County between 1904 and 1916. Three of them were designed by Brainerd Jones: Petaluma, Healdsburg and Sebastopol (demolished in 1976).
Source: Adapted from the NRHP nomination submitted in 1988.
When we photographed the building, it housed the Healdsburg Museum
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Carnegie Free Libraries in Oakland
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Golden Gate, Melrose
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Alameda, Bayliss,
Biggs, Colusa,
Corning, Eureka,
Ferndale, Gilroy,
Grass Valley, Gridley,
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Santa Cruz, Sonoma,
South San Francisco,
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Willits, Willows,
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Beaver, Utah; Coos Bay, Oregon;
Medford, Oregon; Panguitch, Utah
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