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Chappell Hill Circulating Library

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Chappell Hill Circulating Library

Chappell Hill Circulating Library is a historic library on Cedar Street in Chappell Hill, Texas. The library was founded by the Chappell Hill Circulating Library Association in 1893, due to the generosity of W.G. Foote Jr, who donated the library owned by his late father, Dr. W. G. Foote Sr. Dr. Foo

te was a Methodist minister and a professor at Chappell Hill's Soule University during the mid-nineteenth century. The collection was stored in various places for the first several years, until the newly formed Civic Club founded by local ladies decided to build a new library on Cedar Street (once called College St.) The three directors of the Circulating Library Association were Mrs. Fannie A. Campbell, Mrs. Joe E. Routt, and Miss Nannie Adams. It was built in 1912 in a Colonial Revival style by J.W. Heartfield. The plan is nearly square, 20' x 24', with clapboard siding and corner beads. There is a hipped roof that is now asphalt, but was once shingled in cedar. The front elevation exhibits a semi-circular portico supported by two Doric columns capped with oversized capitals and two pilasters. The interior is simple, with a single room adorned with beaded board wainscoting along the perimeter...

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