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The West End Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, located at 47 Wabash Street in the West End neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened on January 31, 1899. It was originally commissioned as part of Andrew Carnegie's first grant to Pittsburgh and was the third library in the Pittsburgh city system to open, following the Main ...
Opened May 31, 1900; the tenth Carnegie funded library to open in America 28: Pittsburgh South Side: Pittsburgh: Feb 6, 1890 — 2205 E. Carson St. Opened January 30, 1908, the last of those which were financed from Mr. Carnegie's original gift to the city. 29: Pittsburgh West End: Pittsburgh: Feb 6, 1890 — 47 Wabash St. Opened January 31, 1899.
The City of Pittsburgh was originally home to eight Carnegie libraries constructed at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1881, Andrew Carnegie offered a US$250,000 grant to the city for the construction of a public library on the condition that the city provided the land and annual funding for the maintenance of the property. [4]
The first Carnegie library, in Dunfermline, Scotland Carnegie Free Library of Braddock in Braddock, Pennsylvania, built in 1888, was the first Carnegie Library in the United States to open (1889) and the first of four to be fully endowed. Carnegie started erecting libraries in places with which he had personal associations. [1]
The West End has three designated historic landmark buildings: the German (now Jerusalem Baptist) Church, the 1899 Carnegie Branch Library (spoken for by Andrew Carnegie himself, 2nd in the Pittsburgh Carnegie system, and home of the first Library Story Hour anywhere), and the Old Stone Tavern, which may pre-date the Fort Pitt Blockhouse as the ...
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, South Side Branch: 1909 Alden & Harlow: East Carson and South Twenty-second Streets South Side 1990 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, West End Branch: 1899 Alden & Harlow: 47 Wabash Avenue West End 2012 Carnegie Steel Manager's house 1900 518 East Eleventh Avenue Munhall 2007 Carrie Furnaces and Pinkerton Landing site
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The first five libraries to open in America, as well as the seventh, Carnegie Library of Homestead, which opened six months after Lawrenceville, were originally closed stack libraries where a clerk was needed to fetch books for the patrons. The eighth to open in America, the West End Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, opened January ...