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Dan Mayzum, a historic preservation architect from the village of Glendale, purchased the old library building at 1320 First Ave. in 2018 for $5,000. He said listing the property for sale was ...
The Carnegie Library at 236 Third St. SW was built by Canton architect Guy Tilden and partly funded by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. It opened to the public as the Canton Public Library in 1905 ...
Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York ...
The Carnegie Public Library in Boise was built for $25,000 in 1905. It was paid for by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The city and the Columbian Club, a women’s group, added $5,000 for furnishings.
The Pacific Improvement Company donated the land for the new library. The building was designed by the McDougall Brothers in the Mission style. The cornerstone was laid on November 9, 1907, and the Pacific Grove Carnegie Library officially opened on May 12, 1908. 78: Palo Alto Palo Alto: Feb 20, 1903: $10,000
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Ohio provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Ohio, where 104 public libraries were built from 79 [1] grants (totaling $2,846,484) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1899 to 1915. In addition, academic libraries were built at 7 institutions (totaling ...
Carnegie's funds covered only the library buildings themselves, and Carnegie gave library buildings to cities on the condition that the cities stocked and maintained them. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] As a result, small communities often struggled with maintenance costs associated with Carnegie libraries; towns were often happy to accept funding for new ...
The third Carnegie library completed in Queens. [14] Destroyed by fire in 1962. 4: Flushing Kissena Boulevard and Main Street Demolished in 1955 [16] 5: Poppenhusen 121-23 14th Ave. and 13-16 College Point Blvd. Completed in 1904, it was the second Carnegie library completed in Queens. [14] 6: Richmond Hill 118-14 Hillside Ave. 7: Woodhaven 85 ...