Defiance Public Library, Defiance, Ohio
Posted by: 
boatchick
N 41° 17.250 W 084° 21.484
16T E 721232 N 4574039
The Defiance Carnegie library is a beautiful building on a historic site.
Waymark Code: WM4VBF
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2008
Views: 28
For 22 years, the Defiance Library Association ran a subscription library system from various places in town until donating their books to form a free public library in 1895. In 1904, a Carnegie grant was received to build a library at the site of Fort Defiance. The fort, which played a strategic role in the Indian wars of the 1790s and in the War of 1812, was located to the south and west of the confluence of the Maumee and AuGlaize rivers.
The library was designed in the Gothic style. It was built with red sandstone, with a tile roof and a stained glass rotunda. The building was dedicated on the Fourth of July in 1905. In the 1960s, two new wings were added to expand the library, and a community room was added to the lower level. Over 100 years old, the library continues to serve the people of Defiance with internet access, special programs, book delivery to homebound people, and other services.