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Library City or town Image Date granted [1] Grant amount [1] Location Notes 1: Aledo Aledo: May 21, 1913: $10,000 200 N. College Ave. In June 1974, the Mercer Carnegie Library was one of two buildings in Aledo named “Landmarks in Mercer County” by the Historic Sites Division of the Illinois Department of Conservation.
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Location City or town Description 1: Dunnan-Hampton House: Dunnan-Hampton House: May 22, 2007 : 511 W. Pells St. Paxton: 2: Paxton Carnegie Public Library: Paxton Carnegie Public Library: May 9, 2002 : 254 S. Market St.
There is a separate category for individual libraries in Illinois. Pages in category "Library districts in Illinois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
As a Carnegie library Flagg Township Public Library was the beneficiary of a grant from Andrew Carnegie for its construction. Often smaller towns and rural areas would band together to petition Carnegie for a grant for a county or area library. [3] Flagg Township Library is one such example of an Illinois township library obtained in this ...
The library was named in honor of Gail Borden (November 9, 1801 – January 11, 1874), who in 1856 invented condensed milk.Gail Borden never lived in Elgin or donated any funds for the library which bears his name, but in 1892, his stepsons, Samuel and Alfred Church, residents of Elgin, purchased and donated the Scofield Mansion at 50 N. Spring Street to house the new library.
The Lincoln Branch Peoria Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 1312 West Lincoln Avenue in Peoria, Illinois. [2] Built in 1910, the building served as the first dedicated library building on Peoria's South Side.
The library board hired Frederick A Schlipf of Urbana Free Library as a consultant and Bhupen Panchal as architect. Panchal designed a 2,540-square-foot (236 m 2) addition at an estimated cost of $314,000. By this time, spring of 1990, the library board applied for a construction grant from the Illinois State Library.
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