College View Public Library

College View Public Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The library in 2012
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Location	3800 South 48th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska
Coordinates	40°46′24″N 96°39′13″W / 40.7732°N 96.6537°W / 40.7732; -96.6537 (College View Public Library)
Area	less than one acre
Built	1916 (1916)
Architect	J. G. L. Cordner
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	84002486[1]
Added to NRHP	June 28, 1984

The College View Public Library is a historic building in the College View neighborhood of Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It was built in 1916 as a Carnegie library with a $7,500 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The design is Classical Revival, with "a symmetrical front facade, simple brick corner pilasters, a water table and wall cornice, and a pedimented entrance enframed by Roman Ionic columns in antis".^[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 28, 1984.^[1]

The building functioned as a library from 1916 to 1971. It was the fourth public library for College View, the first two having burned down, and was built on land supplied by adjacent Union College. College View was annexed by Lincoln in 1930; the city assumed control of the College View library and made it a branch of the Lincoln public library system. However, it was increasingly outdated and unsuited for the residential growth experienced by the area in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1971, the College View branch was replaced by the Charles H. Gere Branch Library as part of a modernization program funded by voters two years prior. Ownership of the building reverted to adjacent Union College, which relocated campus radio station KUCV into the building. KUCV continued to operate from the library until it was sold to the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission in 1988. The building currently houses offices for Union College.