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The following list of Carnegie libraries in West Virginia provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in West Virginia, where 3 public libraries were built from 3 grants (totaling $81,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1907. In addition, one academic library was built.
The Carnegie Public Library at Huntington, West Virginia, formerly also known as the Cabell County Public Library, is a historic library building located on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street. It was the first public library in the county. [2] It served the community as a library until 1980, when a new library opened across ...
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 ...
Books may be purchased in advance for a small fee from the library or borrowed with your Perry Public Library card. For more information, go online, call 515-465-3569, or come to the library.
Books may be purchased in advance for a small fee from the library or borrowed with your Perry Public Library card. For more information, go to www.perry.lib.ia.us, visit the library, or call 515 ...
The Carnegie Public Library served Huntington, West Virginia from 1902, until the opening of the Cabell County Public Library in 1982. [3] The Cabell County Public Library was the first public library "to be automated with a computerized circulation system and online catalog" in West Virginia. [1]
A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. This included 1,689 in the U.S. with others around the world.
It was designed and built in 1905, with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is one of 3,000 such libraries constructed between 1885 and 1919. Carnegie provided $34,000 toward the construction of the Parkersburg library. It is a two-story, L-shaped brick structure in the Classical Revival style.