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The following list of Carnegie libraries in North Carolina provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in North Carolina, where 10 public libraries were built from 9 grants (totaling $165,696) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1917. In addition, academic libraries were built at 6 institutions ...
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). 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 ...
Pages in category "Carnegie libraries in North Carolina" ... Elliott–Carnegie Library This page was last edited on 29 December 2013, at 09:24 (UTC). ...
One of thousands of public libraries that 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie financed is listed for sale in Middletown for $124,900. Between 1886 and 1920, Carnegie donated more than $55 ...
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems.
It was the last public library in North Carolina to receive a grant from the Carnegie Foundation that funded 2,507 such facilities worldwide. In the 1950s, it was converted for use as radio station WHKY by the Catawba Valley Broadcasting Company. It later housed an advertising and public relations firm. [2]
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 ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in California provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in California, where 142 public libraries were built from 121 grants (totaling $2,779,487) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1899 to 1917. In addition, academic libraries were built at two institutions ...