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The library opened to the public on June 24, 1904. [1] [2] It was the first major branch of the Seattle public library system after Ballard was annexed by Seattle in 1907, and also employed one of the first African American librarians in Seattle. The Ballard Carnegie Library remained in use until 1963, when a newer and more modern facility ...
Seattle Main Seattle: January 6, 1901: $430,000 1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 Designed in the Beaux Arts Classical style by P.J. Weber of Chicago. Built by Causey and Carney. Razed 1957-8 for new Library 25: Seattle Ballard: Seattle: March 27, 1903: $15,000 2026 Northwest Market Street, Seattle, WA. 98107-4080
The annexation by Seattle of the city of Ballard brought with it another already established Carnegie library, and a further Carnegie donation of $70,000 in 1911 built the Queen Anne branch (opened 1914) and the Columbia Branch (opened December 31, 1915 in Columbia City).
In October 1999, after two public meetings, the Seattle Library Board voted to build a new branch on the current site of the Henry Branch. [1] The Library Board rejected an offer from a private developer that sought to put the new library branch in a mixed-use development at Broadway and 10th Avenue East, after public opposition to the 65-foot ...
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Ballard Carnegie Library; Beacon Hill Branch Library; ... Seattle Public Library University Branch This page was last edited on 25 December 2017, at 01:06 (UTC). ...
Ballard Branch (as the independent library of Ballard) predated the 1907 annexation of Ballard. Fremont Branch established in a rented room, 1903; Green Lake Branch established in a rented store, 1905; University Branch established in "the old Methodist Church", 1906; Carnegie money for branches all came 1910–1921.