Carnegie Library Building 822 N. Second St Chillicothe, IL 61523 Carnegie grant date: Apr 19, 1915 Grant amount: $10,000 Opened: 1917 Served as the town library until 2005 Currently the home of Waxwing Books For my birthday earlier this month,… Read More ›
Galena Public Library 601 South Bench Street Galena, IL 61036 website Founded by Benjamin Franklin Felt in 1894 First Galena library located in the Post Office Carnegie Grant of $12,500 awarded on January 23, 1907 Cornerstone laid on April… Read More ›
Fremont Branch 731 N. 35th St. Seattle, WA 98103 website Happy Summer Solstice! What better day than today to share this post on the Fremont Branch of the Seattle Library System? The good folks in Fremont take Summer Solstice seriously… Read More ›
Beatrice City Library 218 North 5th Street Beatrice, Nebraska No longer in use as a library. See the Carnegie Restoration Project website for future plans. Update 2018: The library is now the home of the Gage County Tourism and Vistors… Read More ›
This post covers three library-related buildings in Freeport, IL 1. Freeport Carnegie Library 314 W Stephenson St Freeport, IL 61032 Grant Date: February 21, 1901 Grant amount: $30,000 Architects: Patton & Miller (they also designed the Ida Public Library in… Read More ›
Henry L. Stout (bio) Carnegie-Stout Public Library 360 W. 11th Street Dubuque, IA 52001 website Carnegie grant date: January 12, 1901 Grant amount: $60,000 Library opened to the public: October 20, 1902 Architects: Williamson & Spencer Style: Neo-Classical Revivalist Addition… Read More ›
Ida Fuller Hovey (1859-1888) Ida Public Library 320 N. State Street Belvidere, IL 61008-3299 Boone County website The Ida Public Library was named after Ida Fuller Hovey whose father, General Allen Fuller, donated $5,000 to the city in 1883 to… Read More ›
On a recent literary-themed day-trip to Iowa City with some friends, a must-see on my list was the old Carnegie Library. The new public library is right across the street. Below are some pictures of both. First, the old… Carnegie… Read More ›