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The former Lake City Public Library is a historic structure located in Lake City, Iowa, United States. Efforts to establish a library began as early as 1889 when community socials were held to raise money for books. [2] Women in the community, however, would not form a community library association until 1905.
Lake City Public Library may refer to: Lake City Public Library (Lake City, Iowa) , designed by Edgar Lee Barber , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Calhoun County, Iowa Lake City Public Library, library of Lake City, Minnesota
Lake City is a city in Calhoun County, Iowa, United States, founded in 1856. The population was 1,731 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The sign coming into town proudly proclaims that Lake City has "Everything but a Lake."
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 ...
Allen Perry Lovejoy was born in Maine in 1825 and trained as a carpenter. He came west to settle in Janesville in 1850 and started a retail lumberyard. By 1868 he had several yards and a wholesale lumber business, supplied by pine stands that he bought in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and as far west as Oregon and California.
An Iowa public library temporarily closed its doors this month after a series of departures over LGBTQ+ book bans left it short-staffed. The Vinton Public Library, serving a community of just ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Iowa provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Iowa, where 101 public libraries were built from 99 grants (totaling $1,495,706) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1892 to 1917. In addition, academic libraries were built at 7 institutions (totaling $210,000).
Buckeye Lake branch of the Licking County Library, 4455 Walnut Road, on Friday, March 22, 2024.