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The Old Uptown Historic District is a historic district in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The district stretches from Reily to Maclay between Second and Third street. It consists of large Queen Anne and Italianate architecture built in the late 19th century and very early 20th century. The northern part of the historic ...
Opened 1910, it was not part of Carnegie's original grant to Pittsburgh but part of a later gift. It's the last library Carnegie built in the city of Pittsburgh and is much bigger than a typical branch building. It's the library featured in episodes of the PBS show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Includes 300-seat auditorium. Renovated 2004. 26
Penn State Harrisburg Library home page . Penn State University Libraries home page [16] . 40°12′15″N 76°44′28″W / 40.2043°N 76.7411°W / 40.2043; -76
The boundary of Harrisburg's Downtown is considered Forster Street to the north, I-83 to the south, the railroad tracks to the east, and the Susquehanna River to the west. Bull Run [5] (antiquated) Capitol District; Eighth Ward [5] (antiquated) Judytown (antiquated) Market Square; Maclaysburg (antiquated) Restaurant Row; Shipoke; South of ...
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The library's first permanent location was in Old Main, with 1,500 books in agriculture and the sciences. [1] In 1904, the library was moved to the Carnegie Building (then "Carnegie Library"), which provided a 50,000 book capacity. By 1940, the library's collection had grown to 150,000, overcrowding Carnegie by three times its capacity.
This district includes fifty contributing buildings that are located in the old central business district of Harrisburg. Dating from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, notable buildings include the Daily and Weekly Telegraph Building (1873-1874), the City Bank Building (c. 1872), F.W. Woolworth (1939), Rothert's Furniture Store (1906), Bowman's Department Store (1907, 1910 ...
The Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) is the professional association for librarians in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] It represents about 2,000 members affiliated with public , academic , special , and school libraries throughout the state, and was founded in 1901.