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Carnegie Library of Washington D.C. formerly served as the DCPL's Central Public Library. In October 1895, in preparation of the library's establishment, founders rented two rooms in the McLean Building at 1517 H Street NW to begin acquiring and processing materials to be used in what would then be called the Washington City Free Library.
In 1999, it became the headquarters for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. [5] The City Museum of Washington opened in the library in May 2003, but closed less than two years later. [6] In 2014, Events DC twice sought to move the International Spy Museum into the library, but failed to win historic preservation approval.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the 400,000 square foot (37,000 m 2) steel, brick, and glass structure, an example of modern architecture, in Washington, D.C. This library was Mies's only public library, and his only building constructed in Washington, D.C. [citation needed] The building was completed in 1972 at a cost of $18 million.
The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (Library of Congress, 2000) Cole, John Young. Jefferson's legacy: a brief history of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1993) Cole, John Young. "The library of congress becomes a world library, 1815–2005." Libraries & culture (2005) 40#3: 385–398. in Project MUSE
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Washington, D.C. provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Washington, D.C., where 4 public libraries were built from one grant (totaling $682,000) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York on March 16, 1899 (a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie).
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States.It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe.
The Mount Pleasant Library at 1600 Lamont Street, NW in Washington, DC is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that opened in May 1925, [1] and is the third oldest public library building still in use in Washington.
The Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in the Queens Chapel neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE. [1] [2] [3] Residents had requested a library for the area as early as 1957; the current building opened in 1983 at a cost of $2 million ...