Fairbury Public Library

601 7th Street
Fairbury, Nebraska
Phone: (402) 729-2843
Fax: (402) 729-2880
Library Website

According to Wikipedia, a Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by
Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. More than 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including some belonging to public and university library systems. Of the 2,509 such libraries funded between 1883 and 1929, 1,689 were built in the United States. Very few towns that requested a grant and agreed to his terms were refused. When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie.

Nearly all of Carnegie's libraries were built according to "The Carnegie Formula", which required matching contributions from the town that received the donation. It must:

The Fairbury Public Library, a Carnegie Library, was constructed in 1907 – 1909 in the Neo-Classical Revival style. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.