Public Library, Soldiers Monument, Pittsfield, Maine, 1912

 

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Bosler Memorial Library, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1912

 

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Hungerford Library, Harwinton, Connecticut, 1912

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Library, Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1912

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1912, Public Library, Hillsboro, Illinois

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1912, Carnegie Library, Ames, Iowa

[LIB11271] - Opened October 20, 1904, this building has been expanded twice to accommodate growing demand. It was designed by Hawlett and Rawson of Des Moines.

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1912, Free Public Library, Somers, Connecticut

[LIB11174] - No longer used as a public library.

1912 Carnegie Library, San Antonio, Texas

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1912 Public Library, Blue Earth, Minnesota

[LIB11140] The Memorial Library, built by William Ellery Channing Ross and dedicated in 1904 to the memory of his wife Etta Chadbourn Ross, served as the cultural center of Blue Earth for many years. 2004 marked the 100th anniversary of the Library in Blue Earth. [Website]

1912 Public Library, Norfolk, Connecticut

[LIB11126] Mr. George Keller of Hartford was the architect for the building which first opened on March 6, 1889. At the time it was built, the structure went no farther than the north-south corridor of alcoves. The Great Hall, additional stacks, and the back alcove, also designed by Keller, were added in 1911, again the gift of Isabella Eldridge. [Website]

This view is from the railway. Still in use as a public library.

1912 Library, Wyalusing, Pennsylvania

[LIB11063] - Wyalusing's public library was a gift to the community in 1902 from Francis R. Welles. Welles fervently believed in the value of education in improving the world. He felt that by making books accessible to people, he was lending a helping hand in their education. Welles stocked the Wyalusing Public Library with books from his personal collection to that end.

Albert Tipp, a Wilkes-Barre architect, designed the library. He made it as fireproof as current day building techniques would allow. The facade is brick and there is a cement liner between the roof and interior rooms. When an addition was built in 1991, the original tiled fireplaces and oak woodwork was kept intact.
(Information courtesy of the Rocket-Courier.) [Website]

1912 Bosler Library, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

[LIB10105] - Bosler Memorial Hall was a Roman-Gothic building made of red stone, completed June 23, 1886, at a cost of $68,000.  The architect of the building was Charles L. Carson.  The College originally requested that the building be built with less expensive materials in order to build a larger facility, but Bosler's widow insisted that it be built with the finest.  The exterior of the James W. Bosler Memorial Hall included a tower and an arched portal topped by twin cherubs. [http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/]

1912 Public Library, Chelsea, Massachusetts

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1908:  Andrew Carnegie gave $57,500 to the town to build the library.  This amount was added to $20,000 in insurance money received after the fire.  A new building was planned for the same site.

1910:  The new library was dedicated.

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1912 Carnegie Library, Syracuse, New York

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The Carnegie Library on Montgomery Street, Syracuse, in 2004.

1912 New Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut

[LIB9952] Addressed to Mrs. R. V. Abercrombie, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The New Haven Free Public Library goes back to its original opening in 1887 in leased space in a building on Chapel Street. Having outgrown this location by the first few years of the twentieth century, a permanent building was constructed at the corner of Elm and Temple Streets. Built between 1908 and 1911, the building was designed by the prominent architect Cass Gilbert of New York, who had won the design competition. He created a Colonial Revival structure, set back from the street, that would harmonize with the early nineteenth century architecture nearby, including that of United Church on the Green. [Historic Buildings of Connecticut]

1912 The Public Library, LEOMINSTER MA

In 1763, a Social Library began. The interest was keen as approximately 100 books were collected from a population of only 743. The pleasure of books and conversation being among the few entertainments of the time, many different organizations sprouted across the community. In 1848 all these societies came together to form the Public Library. Money to build the facility was raised by the women of Leominster, and the first librarian, Francis Tinker, was appointed in 1856. [SOURCE]

Website for the Leominster Public Library
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