Getting the Xenia Carnegie Library on the National Register of Historic Places opens up tax credits and funding to rehabilitate the building and bring it up to current building standards.

Xenia Mayor Marsha Bayless remembers going to the Carnegie Library on East Church Street as a child. She said the building played an important role in her family’s life.

The building, built in 1906 as one of numerous libraries with financial backing from Andrew Carnegie and design by William Kauffman, was damaged in the 1974 Xenia tornado, after which the city ...

XENIA — The old Xenia Carnegie Library will soon take on a new identity. Bridget Walker, the owner of Sweets Boutique, has purchased the old building on East Church Street from the city and ...

Police say a pickup truck lost control and hit a Premier Health building. Authorities did not release any injury information or say how much damage was done in the crash.

XENIA, Ohio (WDTN) — A vehicle crashed into a Xenia building overnight. According to Xenia Police, the crash, which reportedly involved two vehicles occurred on the 400 block of West 2nd Street.

One of more than a thousand libraries financed by 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie is listed for sale in Middletown for $124,900.

DELAWARE, Ohio, Jan. 13.-An apparent plot to destroy the Carnegie Library here was discovered to-day. The library building, the $20,000 gift of Andrew Carnegie, is nearly completed.

Officials are working to market the former Xenia Carnegie Library in hopes of finding a new tenant for the building, which has been vacant for 20 years.

In the mid-1990s, Mary Ellen Armentrout took it upon herself to compile a catalog of Ohio’s 115 Carnegie libraries. At the time, she was the interlibrary-loan librarian at Otterbein College ...