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Fairmount Park Branch Library
(now Greenville Neighborhood Center)
220 South Fairmount Street
Sioux City, Iowa 51106-5729

William L. Steele & George B. Hilgers, 1927

This building appears to be inspired by the Prairie-themed libraries of Claude & Starck, and is a near-duplicate of the Smith Villa Branch Library.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places, 1983.

References
• Gebhard, David, and Mansheim, Gerald: Buildings of Iowa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 507.
• Wilson, Richard Guy, and Robinson, Sidney K. The Prairie School in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1977, p. 119.

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