Cincinnati’s first nine branch libraries were funded by Andrew Carnegie, who gave millions of dollars to fund library ...

With its stately Georgian Revival architecture, tall arched windows and ivy-covered brick walls, the exterior of the house in Superior, Wis., still looks like a Carnegie Library. It was one of the ...

Carnegie will give $1 million to the Brooklyn Public Library, $1.2 million to the Queens Public Library, and $1.8 million to the New York Public Library in Manhattan to provide English language and ...

BRADDOCK, Pa. (KDKA) - The Braddock Carnegie Library is getting $1.75 million in renovations. ... The library was the first of over 1,600 public libraries created by Andrew Carnegie.

BRADDOCK, Pa. — The Braddock Carnegie Library, ... Now plans are underway to renovate the first U.S. public library built by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie 130 years ago.

The Lakeport Carnegie Library, opened in February 1918, exemplifies classical revival architecture and serves community needs ...

Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide with nearly 1,700 built in the United States. Today, two of them are still standing in Nashville.

$12,500 was secured from steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for construction of the library on Jan. 9, 1913. News Sports Packers Business Go 920! Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

On the 14th day of December, my library gave to me … a festive fete at the Carnegie Carnegie! Yes, you read that right: the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall and the Borough of ...

Indeed, by the time of his death, Carnegie had donated 90% of his wealth, largely in funding construction of 2,509 libraries throughout the English-speaking world — 1,689 in the United States alone.