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The Lexington Public Library opened in 1905 in Lexington, Kentucky. It incorporated the collection of the former Lexington Library Company (est.1801) and the former Transylvania Library (est.1795). Today the main location of the Lexington Public Library system is Central Library along East Main Street connected to Park Plaza Apartments.
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
It is one of 29 sites on a National Park Service-recommended list of places to visit in Lexington, "Lexington, Kentucky: Athens of the West, a National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary. [3] The building is a 1906-built Classical Revival-style Carnegie library, at the south end of Gratz Park, designed by architect Herman L. Rowe.
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KidsBooksLex is now dedicated to improving the well-being of Lexington’s young people—especially of kids from low-income households—by distributing free books and promoting the joy of reading.
It was 1979, and he’d been trying to do some research at the Lexington Public Library, which at the time had its main branch near Gratz Park, in the building that is now the Carnegie Center for ...
Moving the books from the former Margaret I. King Library to the new William T. Young Library was not an easy task. If stretched out from end-to-end, the number of books in the old library would snake from Lexington to St. Louis. [4] The university hired William B. Meyer, part of United Van Lines, to move 1.2 million volumes from four locations ...
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