Corning, Tehama County
Sacramento Valley area, Shasta Cascade region
Corning Business Suites
618 Fourth Street
Corning, CA 96021
opened 1915
Corning Carnegie Library 1915-1974
currently a private office
grant amount: $10,000
architectural style: Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival
architect: Clarence L. Stiles
Scatterville, Farmville, and Riceville were predecessors of the small river
town in the upper Sacramento Valley which moved eastward to meet the railroad
and was renamed Corning, in accordance with the custom of naming towns after
railroad personnel. Just a few blocks from the railroad tracks, the old
Carnegie library at the corner of Fourth and Yolo streets reflects the Mission
style of other older downtown buildings.
The Corning library benefited from another East Coast philanthropist in
addition to Andrew Carnegie: Sarah Bennett of Nyack, NY, a financial
supporter of the Maywood Colony. Colony promoters had aggressively sold
orchard plots to settlers from the east and Corning soon accommodated its own
blend of establishment eastern and newer western cultures. In 1898 Maywood
Colony women formed a Women's Club, received book donations from Colony
investors in the East, and in 1903 opened a library to the public which
occupied a series of temporary quarters. Carnegie funding was sought and
$10,000 was granted in 1913. Clarence Stiles designed the building; Yanish,
Briggs and Walters were the builders. Meanwhile, Maywood Colony investor
Sarah Bennett had died in 1900 but not until her estate was settled in 1921 did
Corning learn that she had left $25,000 for a building and other library
needs. The interest has since enhanced library operations, and Corning
negotiated control of its trust funds when it joined the Tehama County
library system. After a new library was constructed, the Carnegie building
was sold and has since housed a variety of private enterprises.
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