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The following list of Carnegie libraries in the United States provides detailed information on public Carnegie libraries in each state or other territory in the United States, including the number of Carnegie libraries in that state, and the earliest and latest dates of grant award.
The Howard Beach location first opened in May 1963. It moved to its present location at 92-06 156th Ave in November 1978. [2] 27: Hunters Point: 47-40 Center Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11109 The Hunters Point Community Library opened on September 24, 2019, more than 15 years after it was proposed.
As the library neared completion donations of good, worthwhile books were requested. The first librarian hired to run the library was Gertrude A. Baker of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. On May 8, 1902, the library was dedicated and officially opened to the public. At this time the 2,505 volumes from the other city library were transferred to the Carnegie ...
The Macon Library was the 11th Carnegie Brooklyn library. Mapleton Library 1702 60th Street Founded in the 1930s, the Mapleton branch moved to its present building in 1955. [44] Marcy Library 617 DeKalb Avenue Formally known as the Tompkins Park Free Library, this branch opened in the center of Tompkins Park on June 6, 1899. [6] McKinley Park ...
Flatbush Library has served patrons in its present location on Linden Boulevard since 1905; it was the sixth library built in Brooklyn with funds from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. [7] The building was designed by Rudolphe L. Daus , but an extensive renovation in 1934 has rendered the building almost unrecognizable.
Originally named the Aguilar Free Library Society in 1896, for Grace Aguilar, a Sephardic Jewish author; merged with the NYPL in 1905 and moved into a new location that was built using Carnegie funds. The Library is known for its large collection of Spanish titles. [5] 12: Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: 40 West 20th Street 13
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Many of the branches of the current library system were established by entities other than the system itself. The Minneapolis Public Library was founded in 1885 to serve Minneapolis, the county's largest city. [4] It opened its first two branches in 1890. [5] During the 1890s, many areas of Minnesota, especially rural zones, lacked free libraries.