Strahorn, Carrie Adell, Memorial Library | |
Location | College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 43°39′11″N 116°40′34″W / 43.65306°N 116.67611°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1925 |
Architect | Wayland & Fennell; McNeel, J.H. |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 82002510 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 15, 1982 |
Carrie Adell Strahorn Memorial Library at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, was designed by Boise architects Wayland and Fennell as a 1-story, Neoclassical structure. The building opened in 1926 and served the college as a library until 1967 and the opening of Terteling Library. In 1968 the building was renamed Strahorn Hall, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [2]
The city of Caldwell was platted in 1883 by Robert E. Strahorn, and in 1891 the College of Idaho enrolled its first class of 19 students at a location near Strahorn's home in what is now the North Caldwell Historic District. [3] [4] The college moved to its present campus in 1910. [5]
In 1925 Strahorn donated money for construction of the Carrie Adell Strahorn Memorial Library, named in memory of his wife. [2] At the time, the college employed 25 faculty with an enrollment of 500 students. [6] [7] By 1932 the library included more than 10,000 books, [8] and in 1942 the count was 22,000 books. [9]
The library was expanded in 1962, and when a new library opened in 1967 Strahorn was remodeled, reopening in 1968 with offices and classrooms under the name Strahorn Hall. [10]
Reflecting on the building, a librarian wrote in 1961, "On the day it first opened its doors in 1926 Strahorn Library was already a badly outdated building whose construction violated every theory of library architecture." [2]