About Orosi

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The Orosi Library was

established in March 1911 in

the Ryan's Cyclery store. By

July 1913 it officially became a Tulare County Library Branch. In 1917 the County obtained a $3000 Carnegie grant to build a $5000 Carnegie library in Orosi. The Woman's Improvement Club of Orosi raised $2000, purchased lots, and arranged for lumber and labor to be donated for sidewalks. Construction, however, was delayed until after the end of World War I. Completed in 1921, the branch is only one of three of the Craftsman style remaining with two chimneys, but only one fireplace. Orosi was the last Carnegie library to be completed in California. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it is the only Carnegie library still in use as a library in Tulare County. The city of Cutler maintained a small branch which moved from place to place, including stores. In 1978 the Cutler Branch joined with the Orosi Branch which now serves both Orosi and Cutler communities.