Petaluma's Carnegie Library

Petaluma's Carnegie Library opened in nineteen oh six, the same year the San Francisco earthquake rattled the building before its doors were even officially open. Andrew Carnegie donated twelve thousand five hundred dollars toward the construction; the community raised the rest, bringing the total to twenty thousand dollars. Architect Brainerd Jones designed the Classical Revival structure, and its most remarkable interior feature is the largest freestanding leaded glass dome in Northern California.

The library served Petaluma readers until nineteen seventy-six, when the city renovated it for a new purpose. It became the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, housing artifacts and records from the city's history as one of the most important poultry and dairy centers in California. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in nineteen eighty-eight.