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Thompson also remembers that haunted house. “The library didn’t own the building anymore by then,” she said. “I think the city had the building, but I do remember that haunted house was absolutely terrifying. I don’t think I’ve ever done one after that.” The Carnegie Library property is now owned by William Deadman and Sycks, who is the Coshocton County Auditor, said the current market value on the property is $134,200. Thompson said at one point there were plans to turn the Carnegie Library into city hall and municipal court. “I saw the blue prints that went as far as to identify where the court rooms would go,” she said. “I think the city bought it for around $30,000 in 1981, but then they decided to use the old Chestnut School for city hall and municipal court and sold the library.” The story she heard was that the current owner was going to renovate the Carnegie Library and turn it into office spaces. However, for a while it fell into disrepair and Thompson said someone approached the Coshocton County Commissioners, which she was one of at the time, and asked them to do something about the state of the building. “Mr. Deadman wasn’t interested in selling it,” she said. “We even checked into eminent domain, but couldn’t use it. We threw up our hands because there was nothing we could do.”
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Thompson believes there have been other attempts with no success to contact Deadman about the building. “I’d love to see it restored,” Thompson said. “The possibilities for it are endless, but it would take a lot of money because I’m sure all the plumbing and electricity would need replaced. At the time the county was interested in it we had the grants and the funding to restore it. I don’t know if there are very many entities that would be in the position to do that today.” Sycks said she is grateful to see that it appears Deadman is currently keeping up on the property. “It doesn’t look like he is allowing it to deteriorate and is tending to it,” she said. “It’s a neat old building. If I ever hit it big I’d like to buy it, restore it and live in it.” Coshocton’s Carnegie Library was one of 2,509 built in the United States and other countries from 1883 to 1929 with money donated by Carnegie who was a businessman. At first Carnegie almost only gave funds to places he had a personal connection to such as his hometown in Scotland and Pittsburgh, Pa., where he later lived, but eventually he refused few towns that asked him to help with their library and agreed to his terms. “This is something he really believed in,” said Eric Taggart, director of the Coshocton Public Library. “Libraries were really important to him. This was his way of leaving a legacy and also making libraries important to the United States. There are 9,000 plus public library systems and I don’t think without his help that would have happened. Big cities were already getting libraries, but I don’t think small rural towns would have without his donations. There is no one more important to libraries than Andrew Carnegie.” JOSIE@COSHOCTONCOUNTYBEACON.COM
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