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The Willard Library is a private donation library incorporated in 1881 to serve the city of Evansville, Indiana, and to carry out the terms of a private trust. The Willard Library houses a trove of local archives and genealogical materials in addition to its collection of standard publications.
The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) is a public library system serving Evansville and Vanderburgh County in Indiana, USA.The EVPL also supplements the services provided by the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and has the authority to approve the tax levy of the independently run and operated Willard Library.
The Willard Carpenter House, located at 405 Carpenter Street in downtown Evansville, Indiana, is one of two landmarks recognized as memorials to one of the city's most influential pioneers, philanthropist Willard Carpenter. The other is Willard Library which he built, endowed and gave to the people of the area. [3]
The stately Willard Library. Lamasco is a former town, and current district, in Evansville, Indiana originally bounded by the present day streets of St. Joseph Avenue on the west, First Avenue on the east, Maryland on the north and the Ohio River on the south to Fulton (meaning Pennsylvania east of Fulton). [1]
Evansville was a major stop for steamboats along the Ohio River, and it was the home port for a number of companies engaged in trade via the river. [12] Three of Evansville's most iconic buildings – the Old Post Office from the 1870s, Willard Library from the 1880s, and the Old Courthouse from the 1890s – are monuments from those active ...
A Central Library bookcase contains shelves of DVDs with identical spines. Without description, no one would notice them, black type on a white label.
An independent private institution, Willard Library, is also in Evansville. Willard was formed in 1881 to serve the public, regardless of race, a progressive mission in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The library houses local archives and genealogical materials, in addition to its collection of standard publications.
His most notable work in Evansville was the Willard Library, completed in 1885, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Earlier buildings designed by the Reid Brothers firm had been commissioned by banker Aaron Guard Cloud in McLeansboro, Illinois, 60 miles from Evansville.