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Adams Street Library. 9 Adams Street. The branch opened on October 12, 2021, and was the first new branch opened in nearly 40 years. [2] Arlington Library. 203 Arlington Avenue. The branch was originally known as the East Branch and officially opened on November 7, 1906; it was renovated from 1950–52 and in 1980. [3] Bay Ridge Library.
Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904. 8. 58th Street Library. [6] 127 East 58th Street. Originally designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened May 10, 1907. The original building was demolished and replaced by a new branch in two floors of an office tower at 127 East 58th Street, which opened in 1969. 9.
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. [1] Like the two other public library systems in New York City, it is an independent nonprofit organization that is ...
Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611. Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.
In 1901, U.S. industrialist Andrew Carnegie agreed to donate $70,000 to build a new library in Akron. He even threw in an additional $12,000 so the building could be made of stone instead of brick.
Designated NYCL. June 17, 1997. The Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City. Located on Grand Army Plaza, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library. Vol. 20. pp. 685–734. Lydenburg, Harry Miller (1923). History of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The New York Public Library. Myers, Andrew B. The Worlds of Washington Irving: 1783–1859 (1974) Reed, Henry Hope. The New York Public Library: Its Architecture and ...
The Akron-Summit County Public Library is a public library system in Akron, Ohio.Founded in 1874, it operates the Main Library on South High Street and South Main Street in downtown Akron, 18 branch libraries located throughout the city of Akron and Summit County, the Akron Art Library (located on the Second Floor of Main Library, [4] [5] and at the Ellet Branch, [6] [7] the North Hill Branch ...