Biggs, Butte County
Sacramento Valley area, Shasta Cascade region
Biggs Public Library
464-A B Street
Biggs, CA 95917
opened 1908
Public Library 1908-present
currently a public library
grant amount: $5,000
architectural style: Other
architect: A. J. Bryan
The location of the Biggs Carnegie Library on the main street a
block from downtown enables it to conveniently provide another
civic function: Teen center. Surrounded by shade trees and on a
slight slope, the small square building of buff covered brick
with brown trim conveys an almost residential appearance. The
library is on the first floor, reached by a flight of steps.
When the Carnegie grant of $5000 was offered in 1906, Biggs may have been
the smallest city to undertake the responsibility of a library grant. There was
no previous library in Biggs which had incorporated just three years prior to
the request and estimated its population as 700. Architect A.J. Bryan of
Chico designed the building and builders were Huxtable and Losser.
Construction was delayed by the high cost of labor following the "San
Francisco fire and railroad congestion" after the 1906 earthquake. As
completed a recessed front porch extended across the front of the building
but it has been glassed in except for a small entrance porch.
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