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The Allen County Public Library (ACPL) is a public library system located in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1895 as the Fort Wayne Public Library, the library served residents with 3,606 books out of a single room in City Hall. Today the library system includes a main library and 13 branch libraries in Fort Wayne ...
In 1963, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the birth of Henry Ford, the Ford Foundation donated three million dollars to the City of Dearborn to construct a memorial library. On July 30, 1963, Ford's hundredth birthday, the Ford Motor Company deeded 15.3 acres (6.2 ha) of land to the City of Dearborn for the building.
The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center is owned and operated by the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority, which was created in 1948 by the Michigan Legislature. [2] The building contains a library, a courthouse, and the city hall. When it opened, the City-County Building replaced both the historic Detroit City Hall and Wayne County Building.
The city, which once attempted to collaborate with the Wayne County Library for a combined facility, switched properties. The new library is located on the site of the old middle school.
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The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4232-9. Hill, Eric J.; John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-8143-3120-0. Parnassus on Main Street: A History of the Detroit Public Library.
Purdy-Kresge Library is a library on the main campus of Wayne State University and is the main research library for the social sciences, humanities, arts education, and business fields. The library is located at 5265 Cass Ave Detroit , Michigan 48202, across the street from the Detroit Public Library .
The Wayne City School District's original school facility was originally built in the 1930s, but was torn down after the 2015-2016 school year to make room for a new facility. The new school's construction began in 2015 and ended in the middle of 2016 before the start of the school year.