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Greensburg Carnegie Public Library, also known as Greensburg City Hall, is a historic Carnegie library located at Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana. It was built in 1904, and is a one-story, cruciform plan, tan brick building in the Classical Revival style. It is topped by a red terra cotta tiled gable roof and central drum and saucer dome.
The first public library in the county was opened in 1907, in Lithonia. In 1925 a larger public library was founded in Decatur, the county seat of DeKalb County. In 1952 branches of the Decatur Library were established in Brookhaven and Doraville, and the Decatur Library was renamed the Decatur-DeKalb Library. [9]
Memorial Presbyterian Church (ca. 1873), the site of Rev. Edson's sermon ignited the movement for a public library in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Public Library system attributes its beginnings to a Thanksgiving Day, 1868, sermon by Hanford A. Edson, pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church (which would later become Second Presbyterian Church), who issued a plea for a free public library ...
1980 – Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County officially became Allen County Public Library by an act of the state legislature on January 1. 1985 – Estimated 5,500 people ate 2,731 pizzas during the system's 90th birthday celebration. 1997 – Library Board and staff began system-wide space needs analysis for all library facilities.
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This small collection formed the foundation of the Jeffersonville township library, which was created sometime after 1852 when the Indiana General Assembly passed an act regarding the establishment of public libraries. [3] However, this library collection was located in the office of the township trustee and was not convenient for the majority ...
Goshen Carnegie Public Library, also known as the Goshen Public Library, is a historic Carnegie library located at Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1901, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Beaux-Arts style building clad in Bedford limestone. It has a red tile roof and projecting entrance pavilion with two Tuscan order columns.
Union City Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Union City, Randolph County, Indiana.A grant request application was sent to Andrew Carnegie in the Fall of 1903, announcement for the approval of the grant was received in Union City in early December 1903, construction bids were taken in early 1904, ground was broken and foundation construction was started in early ...