The Carnegie Corporation of New York accepted Eagle Grove’s application of a grant for $10,000 to build a library building on April 26, 1902. The library was designed by the Des Moines architect firm Smith and Gage in the Beux Arts style. Dedicated on September 15, 1903. It is a brick structure with a conical-roofed entrance pavilion with four engaged columns in the logic flanking the main entryway. The public library has subsequently moved to a larger facility during 1976 and the old library building was turned over to the Local Historical Society as a museum. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Eagle Grove is a town of 3600 located in deep agriculture country in central Iowa.
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