San Francisco architects George A. Dodge and John Walter Dolliver designed this Carnegie Library which continues to function as a library today. Its most distinctive feature is the rotunda of the lobby, barely visible as a centrally located dome from the exterior.

The library is architecturally significant for the intrinsic merit of its Mission Revival design and for its distinction as one of the few remaining unaltered Mission Revival public buildings still in its original use. The structure clearly exhibits the distinctive features of that style: the espadana, arched windows, lack of exterior molding and sculptural ornamentation, hipped roof, mission tile, low dome, trefoil, and smooth plaster walls.

Excerpted from the NRHP nomination.

The building contributes to the Downtown Woodland Historic District.

Carnegie Free Libraries in Oakland
23rd Avenue, Alden, Golden Gate, Melrose

Some Other Carnegie Free Libraries in California
Alameda, Bayliss, Biggs, Colusa, Corning, Eureka, Ferndale, Gilroy, Grass Valley, Gridley, Hanford, Healdsburg, Hollister, Lincoln. Livermore, Lompoc, Nevada City, Orland, Oroville, Oxnard, Paso Robles, Patterson, Petaluma, Riverbank, Roseville, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo Santa Cruz, Sonoma, South San Francisco, St. Helena, Turlock, Willits, Willows, Woodland, Yolo, Yreka

Some Other Carnegie Free Libraries in the West
Beaver, Utah; Coos Bay, Oregon; Medford, Oregon; Panguitch, Utah

For more information about these and other Carnegie Free Libraries, visit the website Carnegie Libraries of California.