and smooth concrete blocks, fabricated on location. It features a dark brick facade, now painted white, and a partially exposed cement foundation. A cement stairway leads from the road to the arched doorways. Two arched windows are situated in the foyer, the side one being smaller, and the larger front one being of stained glass depicting the lamp of knowledge. There are numerous other windows, rectangular in shape. The interior has not changed much in layout. It includes a black and white checkered floor. Library Gold Rush reference library After the Madelyn Helling Library was built in the Nevada County's Rood Administrative Center in the late 1990s, the Carnegie library became a research and reference library for local history and the California Gold Rush. On May 17, 1997, it was renamed the Doris Foley Library for Historical Research in honor of local teacher, historian and writer, Doris Foley, the wife of a gold-mining engineer. Signage There are several signs and plaques on the outside of the building noting the library's various names: "Public Library": large, block letters above the front door; part of the original design. "Doris Foley Library for Historical Research": lettering on the glass of the front door. "Nevada County Library, Local History Research Center, National Register of Historic Places, December 10, 1990": plaque to the right of the front door "Nevada City Public Library": plaque to the left of the front door. In total, it states: Library Association formed December 19, 1857. First library was in Kidd-Knox Bldg. 228 Broad St. It was moved to Oustomah Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 16, June 3, 1874. Nevada City Trustees assumed responsibilities Oct. 1, 1902 and was moved into the Corcoran Bldg. next to the Nevada Theatre. The Carnegie Endowment was given to the city in 1904. The present library was dedicated Oct. 4, 1907. City groups raised funds for furnishings and beautified grounds 1911. Materials Book capacity is 8,000, and the current automation system is Horizon. There are maps and records dating back to 1856, a Genealogy Room and an Assessor's Books area. In October 2003, the library received the Arthur Cecil Todd Cornish Studies Collection, named in honor of Dr. Todd, author of The Cornish Miner in America: The Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by Emigrant Cornish Miners--The Men Called Cousin Jacks. Friends of the Library Though the Foley was in jeopardy of closing in