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Library City or town Image Date granted [1] Grant amount [1] Location Notes 1: Eureka Springs Eureka Springs: Apr 23, 1906: $15,500 194 Spring St. Construction began in 1910 after the building site was donated by R.C. Kerens, prominent investor in the nearby Crescent Hotel.
Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611. Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.
The Eureka Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 520 N. Main in Eureka, Kansas. The library was built in 1914 through a $9,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. The George P. Washburn Co. designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The red brick library has a facade with three bays.
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.
Jul. 28—In 1892, Andrew Carnegie, the multimillionaire steel industrialist, commissioned a library in Fairfield, Iowa. It became the model for his future grants. In 1899, his foundation began ...
After receiving a $20,000 Carnegie library grant in 1901, the library trustees held a competition and selected local architects Knowles Evans and B.C. Tarver of Eureka to design the building [3] from red brick and Mad River granite exterior with two story solid redwood columns ringing a colorful tile mosaic floor in the domed rotunda. [2]
English: Eureka Carnegie Library This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 88001170 .
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 ...