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AKA: Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Structure Type: built works - exhibition buildings - museums; built works - social and civic buildings - libraries
Designers: Evans and Tarver, Architects (firm); Foster, Ambrose, Building Contractor (firm); Knowles Evans (architect); Ambrose Foster (building contractor); B. C. Tarver (architect)
Dates: constructed 1901
The Carnegie Corporation of New York, NY, granted the Eureka Public Library $20,000 in 1901. Evans and Tarver, Architects, won a local competition for the design of this library to serve the lumber town of Eureka, CA. They chose a popular Neo-Classical design, with its projecting portico and corner pilasters. Ambrose Foster served as the Building Contractor for the Eureka Carnegie Library. The building functioned as the main Eureka Library from 1906-1972; it was adapted to serve various other purposes until 01/01/2000, when it was renovated to house the paintings of the internationally known Seattle artist, Morris Graves. Graves had a house in Northern CA for many years.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 1986. The library had a notable central atrium, supported by towering, two-story redwood columns. A dome once capped the atrium but was dismantled leaving a flat roofed projection on the roof.
PCAD id: 12169
