[2][3] The Enid Carnegie Library was a Mission Revival style building designed by A.

[5] By the late 1950s the library system had outgrown the Carnegie library, storing 60,000 books in a facility that was built to hold 20,000 books,[6] and the building itself was falling into desrepair as the oldest government building in the city.

[8] Following years of vacancy, the Carnegie library was demolished in 1972, and is now a vacant lot.

[10] The library building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

The Enid and Garfield Library made national headlines in 2022 when the library board enacted a policy that banned displays about gender and sexuality, and as result meetings of a local romance book club.