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1921–2002 · THE BUILDING'S COURSE, THEN THE TOWN HALL
The Carnegie building served as the town's library for eighty-one years, and it serves the town still — as its hall. From its completion in 1921 until the move of 2002, the whole of this library's life happened in the one building at 124 East Michigan Street, on the town's main street in the middle of the historic business block: the Depression, the war years, the reciprocal-borrowing era, and the whole second half of the century passed through that one Carnegie plan. The staff manual the library wrote for its own employees in the mid-2000s tells the move in the institution's own voice, in answer to the question a new clerk was likeliest to be asked: "Our current facility was finished in 2002. Our original building was downtown in what is now the New Carlisle Town Hall. That building was built in 1921!" The Carnegie enumeration's note — "Currently houses town offices" — agrees from the outside. The building therefore prints in this build twice over by right: here, as the library's first seat; and in the town government's own story, as its present one. What neither carrier gives is the conveyance — when and on what terms the library board passed the building to the town — and that instrument stands with the board minutes and the town's records as its settlers, in the closing ledger.
Principal sources: the library's Staff Manual (mid-2000s; the library's own question-and-answer account, read whole); the Indiana Carnegie enumeration (the row's note); the library's orientation packet facility statement (read whole).