Library, Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey

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1909, Public Library, Madison, New Jersey

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Public Library, Madison, Maine

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Library, Lowell Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Looks cozy enough, where are the computers?

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1909 Public Library, Madison, Maine

[LIB10267] Still in use as a library. [Website]

1916 Carnegie Library, Madison, Maine

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The library has had four different homes before reaching its final destination.  It remained for some years in the Town Blocke, and when Charles O. Small opened a law office over T.H. Spear's tin-shop, he gave use of an alcove for the books of the library.  After the burning of the shop, the library took up space in the new building on the same site erected by Dr. Hunnewell and Simon Stone.  It remained there until it moved to the Blackwell Block in January of 1903, where it had remained until the construction of the octagonal building which houses the library today. In 1905 Mr. Carnegie agreed to donate $8,000 for a free public library with $800 to be raised annually for its maintenance and so the library plans began.

The octagonal building, designed by Clifton S. Humphreys, was constructed in the heart of town, on the corner of Old Point Avenue and Pleasant Street.  It was completed in 1906, and ready for occupancy in January, 1907. [Website] [http://www.madisonmaine.com/]

1973 Friendship Library, Florham Madison Campus, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey

[LIB8028] Addressed to Princeton, New Jersey. The address has been redacted for privacy.

Completed in the spring of 1961, the facility was named Friendship Library in honor of the bond shared between FDU trustees and supporters Samuel J. Silberman and Fairleigh S. Dickinson, whose donations made the project possible. Then, Sammartino “gave carte blanche to the librarian as far as books were concerned.” By 1962, the collection had grown to exceed 34,000 volumes. [Website]

1954 E.C. Scranton Library, Madison, Connecticut

[LIB5225] The inadequacies of this situation were resolved in 1900 when Miss Mary Eliza Scranton offered the Association the use of a new, completely furnished, library building which she had had built on the corner of Wall Street adjoining her family's old home. The offer was accepted, books moved in, and in 1901 the Association dissolved and the E. C. Scranton Memorial Library was incorporated.

The building was designed by Henry Bacon, an eminent New York architect who later designed the Lincoln Memorial. A New York firm of "contracting designers" were in complete charge of the architecture, construction, decorations and furnishings, the total cost of which was about $30,000. [Read more at the Website]

E.C. Scranton Library, Madison, Connecticut

[LIB4965] - The E.C. Scranton Memorial Library was a 1901 gift to the townspeople from Mary Scranton. The original building was designed by the architect Henry Bacon, who later designed the Lincoln Memorial. [Wikipedia]

E. C. Scranton Library, Madison, Connecticut

[LIB2367] The inadequacies of this situation were resolved in 1900 when Miss Mary Eliza Scranton offered the Association the use of a new, completely furnished, library building which she had had built on the corner of Wall Street adjoining her family's old home. The offer was accepted, books moved in, and in 1901 the Association dissolved and the E. C. Scranton Memorial Library was incorporated.

The building was designed by Henry Bacon, an eminent New York architect who later designed the Lincoln Memorial. A New York firm of "contracting designers" were in complete charge of the architecture, construction, decorations and furnishings, the total cost of which was about $30,000. This original structure is the front section of the present building. [Website]

1908 Library, Drew Seminary, Madison NJ

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Inventory of Unpublished Material for American Religious History in Protestant Church Archives and Other Repositories (1910)

BY

WILLIAM HENRY ALLISON
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Colgate Theological Seminary

State Historical Library and Museum, Madison, WI

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The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, organized in the early part of 1849, i.e., scarcely one year after Wisconsin became a state, is exceptionally well equipped with printed and manuscript colonial records and government documents, state and federal, with United States newspapers, biographical material and reports concerning American travel, e.g., the Jesuit relations. [Thanks to the School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, cms.pharmacy.wisc.edu]

Library, Madison, South Dakota

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The classic style of building has always been a visible expression of high culture, and the divine function of architecture to elevate, to purify, and refine can be seen in the effects upon people of buildings of this style, so Madison's library will surely help in the art education of its citizens. [SOURCE]

1912 Public Library MADISON WISCONSIN

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1911 Historical Library Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

"The 1883 Michigan Library, which came down during World War I to make way for the present General Library at Ann Arbor, had certain resemblances to the red brick Gothic Memorial Hall at Harvard, which Van Brunt designed. The great stone library at Cornell, with its separate tower, long the focus of alumni nostalgia "far above Cayuga's waters," was designed by a local architect named Miller and reflected the influence of the well-known American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, who derived much of the inspiration for his style from early Romanesque. But when the time arrived for the erection of a library for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the influence of the much-admired architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago was in the ascendant, and the straight lines of the classic orders, with flat roofs, domes, and colonnades were the order of the day for every large public building then contemplated." [SOURCE]
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Wisconsin State Historical Library Building. Memorial Volume, 1901. Exercises, Description, Accounts, Brief History etc.

1913 North Terraced Entrance, State Historical Library, U of W, MADISON WI

Published by A. Bishop, Racine, Wisconson, card no. A621.

Wisconsin Historical Society website.

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Library Mall, University of Wisconsin, MADISON WI

This is a postcard I received from a Postcrossing member.

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1960s MADISON FL North Florida Junior College Library

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