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The three-story Italian Renaissance Revival style Sacramento Carnegie library opened on I street between 8th and 9th in 1918, replacing an earlier 1872 building one block to the west. The library was designed by Loring P. Rixford and was financed in large part by a $100,000 grant from Carnegie. The outside of the building retains much of its ...
By 1913, the Sacramento City Library collection had expanded to fill the 5,763 sq. ft. main library at 716 I Street, and the Sacramento Veteran Knights of Pythias applied to the Carnegie Corporation for the building of a new city library at the corner of 9th and I Streets.
The Oval, Mills College, Oakland, CA 94613 Academic library from 1906 to 1989, now administrative offices and upstairs reading room. The Mills College Margaret Carnegie Library Building, named in honor of Andrew Carnegie's daughter, is the only California Carnegie designed by renowned architect Julia Morgan, in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. 2
The downtown Sacramento skyline from Old Sacramento on April 5. A boutique hotel and a viewing deck and pedestrian bridge overlooking the Sacramento River are part of separate state and city plans ...
Included within downtown is the California State Capitol building, the house of the California state government.The major retail and entertainment area is known as the Downtown Commons (DOCO), which includes Macy's, the Sawyer Hotel, Golden 1 Center (home of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association), and a wide variety of dining establishments and retail shops.
According to library data, a 2022 feasibility study of the aging library facility downtown quoted the cost of needed upgrades and renovations at over $15.7 million.
The new location is 8,700 square feet, which is roughly 27 times smaller than the former downtown branch at 500 W. Third St. That building was sold to Dart Interests in December 2022 for $18 million.
The library features 79 private study rooms, 4 meeting rooms, and 14 instructional classrooms. [2] The library houses 200 public access research computer stations, 120 faculty/staff personal computers, and 5 computer classrooms ranging in capacities of 40 to 100. [5] There are currently 27 full-time librarians and 34 library assistants. [2]