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The Mount Pleasant Library was the third and last DC Neighborhood Library to be built with Carnegie funding. Andrew Carnegie had funded the construction of the Central Library and, at its dedication in 1903, he offered to finance branch buildings as they were needed. Congress was slow to authorize the acceptance of his offer.
The Former Mount Pleasant Public Library is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The library here was established in 1875. The community applied to Andrew Carnegie for a grant to build a new building, which was accepted on January 13, 1903. They were initially granted $10,000 and then were given a further $2,500. [2]
The new building, the 173,500 square foot Charles V. Park Library, opened to students in 1969 and featured seating for more than 2,000 users. Charles V. Park Library at Central Michigan University The Adobe Digital Lounge in the Park Library. The Park Library was renovated and enlarged from 1999-2001 and opened to the public in January 2002.
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) The Town of Mount Pleasant’s Commercial Design Review Board met Monday night and one of the developments up for review had residents divided. The developers of the ...
The Clarke Historical Library is part of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. It is located within the Charles V. Park Library on the campus. The library was founded in 1954 by Norman E. Clarke Sr., [ 1 ] who gave his library and collections to the college, which he had attended as a young man.
The most recent rebuilt library to open was the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, which opened in 2022 in Queens Chapel. In 2023, library officials announced that they were considering whether to close the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library and relocate it further south to fill a service gap. [13]
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