Columbus Public Library
223 West James Street
Columbus, Wisconsin 53925
920/623-5910

Open during business hours

Claude & Starck, 1911

An Arts & Crafts essay by C&S, unique among their library designs. It faces the side of Sullivan’s bank and the downtown business district, but backs up against a residential section of town. Its non-monumental character and details (such as window flower boxes!) represent a fine solution to bridging this divide.

References
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Visser, Kristin. Frank Lloyd Wright & the Prairie School in Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: Prairie Oak Press, 1998 (Second Edition), p. 79-80.

  

 

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