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The Dunfermline Carnegie Library opened in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 29 August 1883 and was the world's first Carnegie Library funded by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It was designed by Edinburgh architect James Campbell Walker who also designed the nearby Dunfermline City Chambers. Andrew Carnegie ...
Bideford Library, Devon, England, built 1905 This is an incomplete list of Carnegie libraries in Europe. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) Belgium The University Library, Leuven, Belgium The University Library, Leuven, after fire damage in the First World War A Carnegie library was built in the 1920s for the University of Leuven to replace a ...
The first Carnegie library, in Dunfermline, Scotland Carnegie Free Library of Braddock in Braddock, Pennsylvania, built in 1888, was the first Carnegie Library in the United States to open (1889) and the first of four to be fully endowed. Carnegie started erecting libraries in places with which he had personal associations. [1]
Stately Timber was due back to a Dunfermline library in November 1948. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail ...
In 2017, Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries opened, an extension of the former Carnegie library building. [128] [129] This provides the town with museum, art gallery, archive, library, cafe and garden spaces. [129] Funders included Fife Council (£6.8 million) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (£2.8 million). [128]
Dalry Library (Castle Douglas, Scotland) Eastriggs Library; Ewart Library; ... Dunfermline Carnegie Library; Elie Library; Inverkeithing Library and Heritage Centre;
Dunfermline City Chambers (1875) Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the world’s first Carnegie library (1880) Ladybank Parish Church (1881) Hawick Town Hall (1883) Ancrum Police Station (1884) New ballroom at Blair Castle (1885)
In the following year, Carnegie gave £8,000 for the establishment of a Dunfermline Carnegie Library in Scotland. In 1884, he gave $50,000 to Bellevue Hospital Medical College (now part of New York University Medical Center ) to create a histological laboratory, now called the Carnegie Laboratory.