Union Township Public Library
27 Main Street
Ripley, Ohio 45167-1231
937/392-4871

Open during business hours.

H.T. Liebert, 1915

In 1910, the Ripley Progress Club began to raise money to buy land for a library building. The Carnegie Foundation gave $10,000, with the stipulation that the library would be built in a location above the level of the flood of 1913. Liebert, of Wausau, Wisconsin, and later Chicago, seems to have made a specialty of libraries. Liebert’s building is enriched by tile made by Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati.

The original building was sympathetically enlarged in 1990 and 1993.

Photographs courtesy of Richard Kenyon.

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