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| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | Public Square |
| Reference Number: | 81876 |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Beloit Public Library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Beloit, Wis." |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Beloit Public Library. There are reading tables with large lamps, bentwood chairs, and bookshelves throughout the room. |
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| Description: | Interior view, perhaps from the entrance, of the Beloit Public Library. There is a large librarian's desk in the center, with freestanding bookshelves on b... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the old Beloit Public Library. There is a bicycle lying on the lawn near the front entrance. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Beloit Public Library. This image is also available as a cyanotype. The reverse of the cyanotype version has a note: "Patton + Miller,... |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an artist's rendering of an exterior view of the Beloit Public Library. Of note is the following above the main entrance: "Carnegie Pu... |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | Beloit Water Tower |
| Reference Number: | 83003410 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Beloit Public Library. The reverse of the image has a note: "1903, Carnegie bldg, cost $25,000 - Patton + Miller, Chicago, Arch." |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Beloit Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and Andrew Carnegie funded library construction with $25,000. Three women are seated... |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | First Methodist Church and School |
| Reference Number: | 231400 |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | YMCA |
| Reference Number: | 83285 |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | First Baptist Church |
| Reference Number: | 83621 |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library. |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
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| Reference Number: | 85343 |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | BELOIT WAGON WORKS |
| Reference Number: | 85973 |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | Fairbanks Morse Office and Employees' Recreation Facilities |
| Reference Number: | 85977 |
| Community: | Beloit |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | Arthur Mattison House |
| Reference Number: | 80855 |
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