Dixon, Solano County
San Francisco Bay/Delta/Sacramento area, Central Valley region
Dixon Public Library
(Dixon Unified School District Library)
135 East B Street
Dixon, CA 95620
opened 1913
Public Library 1913-present
currently a public library
grant amount: $10,000
architectural style: Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival
architect: Parker and Kenyon
The Dixon Carnegie library faces on B Street just east of the intersection of
B and First streets; however the main library entrance is now through its new
addition which faces on First, connected to the Carnegie in an L-shaped
configuration but visually separated from it by a commercial building at the
corner. The Carnegie wing, combining Classical and Mission elements,
continues to serve as a reading room, with the words "Carnegie Library" over
the old entrance.
Dixon is one of only three California Carnegie communities to obtain a
library as a high school district rather than city or county, under 1911
state legislation enabling a wider taxing area to support a library.
Previously known as Dicksonville, Dixon had a 1910 population of just 827 but
secured a 1911 Carnegie grant of $10,000 using the school district
population. The Dixon Reading Club and a free reading room had been short
lived, and in 1906 the city took steps to establish a municipal library, but
the school district plan plus the efforts of the Women's Improvement Club
were decisive. The president of the club donated the lots. Architects
Parker and Kenyon designed the building; contractors Charles J. Rose, and Brady
and Fisher are both mentioned. The library is still organized as the Dixon
Unified School District Library District but is known as the Dixon Public
Library. The Carnegie building itself was acknowledged as historically
significant by the city council in 1988, and plaques at the old entrance
commemorate its original benefactors and its 1992 rededication as the Dixon
Carnegie Library.
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