Gresham Carnegie Library

When Carnegie money arrived in Gresham in the early nineteen teens, the town was still small enough that its public library occupied a single Tudor Revival building that cost eleven thousand five hundred sixty-eight dollars to construct. Andrew Carnegie's foundation funded thirty-two library buildings across Oregon between nineteen oh six and nineteen twenty-one , part of a nationwide effort that underwrote more than twenty-five hundred public libraries across the English-speaking world. The Gresham building, designed by architect Folger Johnson, opened on March first, nineteen thirteen.

It served the community for more than seven decades as a library and meeting space before the collection outgrew the building and moved to a larger facility in nineteen eighty-nine. The Gresham Historical Society purchased the Tudor-style structure and converted it to the Gresham History Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in the year two thousand.