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style. Above a raised concrete basement, it is built of brick covered by white concrete stucco. It was originally light ivory in color with a sage green base. It has a hipped roof of red Spanish tile with broad overhanging eaves supported by wooden brackets, and a broad
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It is located in west Denver at the southwest corner of Hooker Street and Conejos Place, near major boulevards West Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard, and it is visible from both.
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It was one of four Carnegie libraries funded by an $ 80,000 grant in 1912, which were all opened in 1913 "to much fanfare", three years after the main
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It was deemed significant "for its association with the nationwide public library movement sponsored and funded by grants from
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Dickinson Branch Library is located in Colorado
Denver, Colorado
39°44′29″N 105°01′41″W / 39.74139°N 105.02806°W / 39.74139; -105.02806 (Dickinson Branch Library)
Maurice Biscoe
Allen Tupper True
02000262
West Colfax
Denver, Colorado
Carnegie library
National Register of Historic Places
Maurice Biscoe
Italian Renaissance Revival
cornice
Allen Tupper True
Dudley Carpenter
Denver Public Library
Roger W. Woodbury Branch Library
Sarah Platt Decker Branch Library
Henry White Warren Branch Library
Andrew Carnegie
National Register of Historic Places listings in west Denver


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