Beaumont, Riverside County
Inland Empire area, Inland Empire region
Beaumont District Library
125 East Eighth street
Beaumont, CA 92223
opened 1914
Public Library 1914-present
currently a public library
grant amount: $10,000
architectural style: Classical Revival (Type B)/Other
architect: E. L. Hopkins
The Beaumont Carnegie library, at the southeast corner of East Eighth and
California streets is one of the earliest major structures in Beaumont. Los
Angeles architect E.L. Hopkins designed the library in the Classical Revival
style; contractors were Mann and Knox. In 1977 the building was concealed
under a new mansard roof intended to unite the old building with a rear
addition and new entrance constructed in 1966. Still visible are wide central
steps and round transom windows and door of the unused original entrance.
Renovation of the interior and painting the exterior has just been completed
and the upstairs of the original building is now the Vintage Room with local
history resources. Tentative future plans are being considered to remove the
mansard roof and restore the original building.
Beaumont is unusual in that it received a Carnegie grant in the name of a
district and not a city. The San Gorgonio Club, which later became the
Beaumont Woman's Club initiated a library in 1909. In 1911, a year before
there was an incorporated city, the women campaigned successfully for a
library district even though they could not yet vote. In 1913 the district
requested and received a $10,000 Carnegie grant and still provides library
services for the sixty square mile area.
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