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Scarsdale's public library, which had been housed in historic Wayside Cottage since 1928, moved to its present structure on the White Plains Post Road in 1951. [11] The driving force behind the library was New York City publisher S. Spencer Scott, who raised $100,000 for the project after the village rejected a bond issue to fund the building ...
Wayside Cottage is a historic home located at Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. The earliest part of the house was built about 1720 and is the four-bay-wide, two-bay-deep, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story south section. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has a gable roof and verandah with Doric order piers.
Nicholas Kristof, journalist and columnist for the New York Times; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, most recently in 2006 for columns regarding the humanitarian crisis in Darfur [28] Harry M. Lydenberg, an American librarian, author and book conservationist. Best known as a long-time director for the New York Public Library.
The home, established in 1729, was donated to the village in 1919. Through the years it served as a meeting place for suffragettes, the offices of the Scarsdale Inquirer and Scarsdale's first library.
The Scarsdale Public School District (Scarsdale Union Free School District) is a public school district whose boundaries encompass the entirety of Scarsdale, New York and part of the unincorporated portion of the town of Mamaroneck, New York. [2] The district enrollment is 4,593 students in grades K-12 in seven schools.
Westchester Library System (WLS) is the library system for the residents of Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1958. It was established in 1958. The system has 38 public libraries across the county and its headquarters are located in the town of Greenburgh , near Elmsford .
Library Image Address Historical Note; 1: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch) Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street: Built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on ...
As a charter member of the 38-member Westchester Library System, the Ossining Public Library offers its patrons access to the more than one million holdings of the other county libraries. A $15.8-million building program was started in 2005 to replace the 1960s-era facility with a new 48,000-square-foot (4,500 m 2 ) building.