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The Gateway Building on the campus of Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. WCC's main campus sits at an elevation of 500 ft (152 m), [24] off of Grasslands Road in Valhalla, just north of White Plains. [25] In 1780, this location was the site of a surprise attack by British and Hessian troops on American soldiers.
The library was officially founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington, [1] a Southern Pacific Railroad magnate whose summer home was in nearby Throggs Neck, Bronx.Its origins, however, were in the will of Peter C. Van Schaick, a local philanthropist, who set aside funds from his estate to build a free reading room to be donated to the village of West Chester, (now the Bronx) upon its completion.
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 .
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.
The John A. Hartford House stands on the campus of Westchester Community College, located west of the village of Valhalla. The college is located on a portion of the original Hartford country estate. The house is a large Tudor Revival structure, designed by Mann and MacNeille, an architecture firm from New York City , [ 1 ] and completed in 1932.
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 ...
The Yonkers Public Library is a founding member and the largest member of the Westchester Library System (WLS), a consortium of 38 libraries serving the residents of Westchester County. The Yonkers Public Library operates with a budget of over $9 million, 105 staff members, and a collection of nearly 700,000 books and other materials.
The Briarcliff Manor Public Library is a member of the Westchester Library System, the 38-member library system for Westchester County. [35]: 69 Around 1940, the library was integrated with the Union Catalog of the Westchester Library Association, [5]: 10 and it became one of the founding 31 members of the Westchester Library System in 1958.