Taylors Falls Public Library

Infobox_nrhp | name =Taylors Falls Public Library
nrhp_type =nrhp

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caption = Taylors Falls Public Library in 1934
location= Taylors Falls, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 45
lat_minutes = 24
lat_seconds = 10.43
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 92
long_minutes = 39
long_seconds = 8.84
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1854
architect= John Jacob Spengler
architecture= Eastlake, Victorian Gothic
added = October 15, 1970
governing_body = Local
mpsub=Chisago County MRA (AD)
refnum=70000290cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Taylors Falls Public Library, located at 417 Bench Street in Taylors Falls in the U.S. state of Minnesota was built by John Jacob Spengler as a tailor shop in 1854; he sewed uniforms for Union Soldiers in the Civil War, while he and his family lived in the back room of the building. The one-story two-room building features a barrel-vault ceiling in the front room and a pressed tin ceiling in the back room. Other architectural elements include Victorian Gothic pendants, spindles, and quatro-foils in an Eastlake style. In 1887 the building was sold to the Taylors Falls Library Association for use as a library.cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3] [cite web| title =Branch Street Library, Taylors Falls, Chisago County, MN| publisher =Library of Congress| work=Historic American Buildings Survey| url =http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(MINNESOTA--Chisago+County--Taylors+Falls))| accessdate = 2007-11-12] [cite web| title =1880s: Taylors Falls Public Library| work =Gateways through the Years| publisher =Minnesota Historical Society| url =http://nrhp.mnhs.org/property_overview.cfm?propertyID=65| accessdate =2007-11-12] That use continues today; in 2007 the library received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which seeks to provide information technology to residents of rural communities. [cite web| title =Minnesota Grant Recipients| publisher =Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation| url =http://www.gatesfoundation.org/UnitedStates/USLibraryProgram/Grants/Minnesota.htm| accessdate =2007-11-12]

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