Thomas Beaver Free Library and Danville YMCA

Thomas Beaver Free Library and Danville YMCA

Beaver Free Library, October 2011
Location E. Market and Ferry Sts., Danville, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°57′36″N 76°36′23″W / 40.96000°N 76.60639°W / 40.96000; -76.60639Coordinates: 40°57′36″N 76°36′23″W / 40.96000°N 76.60639°W / 40.96000; -76.60639
Area 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built 1886
Built by Voris, Archibald
Architect Wetzel, Charles
Architectural style Second Empire, Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 86003578[1]
Added to NRHP January 15, 1987

Thomas Beaver Free Library and Danville YMCA is a historic library and YMCA located at Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania. The two attached buildings were built in 1886. They are 2 12-story, sandstone buildings with slate roofs in a combined Queen Anne / Second Empire style. The buildings feature an octagonal cupola, corbelled stone chimneys, a hipped roof tower, and terra cotta ornament.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Douglas McMinn and Greg Ramsey (December 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Thomas Beaver Free Library and Danville YMCA" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-27.


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