Free Library Port Jervis NY 1905

 

LIB864096

Carnegie Library, Greencastle, Indiana, 1905

LIB113025

 

Public Library, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1905

LIB258611

Morrison Reeve's Library, Richmond, Indiana, 1905

LIB110797

Public Library, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1905

LIB774449

Public Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1905

LIB693272

1905, Library, Medford, Massachusetts

[LIB456091]

1905, Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, Califonia

[LIB988234]

1905, Library, Summit, New Jersey

[R955558]

1905 Free Public Library, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

1905 Free Public Library, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

From 1888, the Library has been housed in five different buildings. Our Library was built on its present site on Jefferson Street, in 1901, on land donated by J. C. Mc Coy, of the Raritan Copper Works and constructed with the aid of a $20,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, a $1,000 donation from Adolph Lewisohn to purchase new books, and an agreement by the City to provide for the Library’s upkeep. [from the website]

[LIB11216]

1905 De Peyster Library, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

[LIB11159] - The Watts-de Peyster Library, built in 1897, faced College Avenue.

1897-1898 - First College library building constructed in Richardsonian Romanesque style at a cost of $16,055 plus $990 for a steam heating plant and $5,150 for steel book stacks; Named Watts-de Peyster Library after Frederick de Peyster and John Watts, father and maternal grandfather of donor, John Watts de Peyster (1821-1907); Library collections were formerly housed in the Literary Society buildings and in the college library, ground floor/Old Main; M. (Michael) O'Connor of Hudson, NY., Architect; George H. Oster of Lancaster, Builder. Original cornerstone laid May 1897 is located in lobby along with busts of John Watts and John Watts de Peyster. A sculpture of the donor's ancestor Abraham de Peyster was located in front of the building along College Avenue. It was moved to its present location along Buchanan Avenue in 1937. The building has been demolished.

1905 Chittenden Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

[LIB10.030]

1905 Public Library, Wrentham, Massachusetts

[LIB9951]