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Carnegie Library (314 West Grand River Avenue) The Carnegie Library is located across the street from the Presbyterian Church, and is located on a large lot in a park-like setting. It is a Neoclassical building, constructed in 1903-06 of local fieldstone and granite shaded gray, deep rose and white. A round cupola is atop the roof.
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: Carnegie ...
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.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Washington provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Washington, where 43 libraries were built from 33 grants (totaling $1,046,000) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1916. Of the 43 libraries built, 32 still stand and out of those, 14 still serve ...
The Carnegie Library in Middletown received $25,000 in funding from Carnegie in the early 1900s, according to the National Park Service, which has designated many of the old libraries national ...
St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch is a historic Carnegie Library building located at St. Joseph, Missouri. It was designed by the architect Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845–1934) and built in 1902 in the Classical Revival style. It is a one-story, brick and limestone building over a raised basement.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Alabama provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Alabama, where 14 public libraries were built from 14 grants (totaling $195,800) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1916. In addition, academic libraries were built at 5 institutions (totaling $94,040).
Carnegie Library building in Mount Vernon Square houses the Historical Society (2008) Carnegie Library building seen from the south in 2019. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., also called the DC History Center, is an educational foundation dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of Washington, D.C.