1965, Detroit Library, Exterior Architectural Details

 

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1960, Escalator, Architecture, Seattle Central Public Library Building

 

Video: Ohio State's Thompson Library: History and Architecture

Video: An Architectural History of Newburgh, New York

Not exactly library but nice video.

1918 Carnegie Library, Allegan, Michigan

[LIB0364] - 1914, The present Carnegie Library building was formally opened on Hubbard Street. The total cost was $13,000. Read more about this historic library here.

Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg: Saving a Modern Masterpiece

With 400 images and drawings, this book presents architect Alvar Aalto's famous library in Vyborg, Russia, and the international efforts since 1994 to restore it. Within this extraordinary example of modernist design, its original plans dating from 1927 and constructed with modifications between 1933 & 1935 is a catalog of innovative concepts that reflect Aalto's most mature and influential work.

Library, Lenox, Massachusetts 1932 Vintage Poster

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Library, Binghamton NY Vintage 1909 Poster

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Curtis Library Meriden CT Vintage 1907 Poster

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Carnegie Library San Bernardino CA Vintage c1915 Print

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Carnegie Library San Bernardino CA Vintage c1915 Bumper Sticker

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ARCHITECTURE - Renzo Piano - Morgan Library

Interior of Renzo Piano's expansion of Morgan Library Museum.

Public Library, Anacortes, Washington

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The Carnegie Gallery was originally designed as a Carnegie Library and was built between 1909 and 1911. It became the home of the Anacortes Museum in 1968, and in 1977 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architect, builder, or engineer: Piper & Cox

Anacortes Illustrated. Containing a General Description of the State of Washington and a Review of Resources, Terminal Advantages, General Industries and Climate of Anacortes and Its Tributary Country. Cover title: Anacortes. Illustrated. Washington.

New use for an old library...

From old to new

First tenant moves into a FD landmark:

Tenants in the new Carnegie Apartments will feel right at home curling up in an easy chair with a good book. That's because their easy chairs will be in the old Fort Dodge Public Library, a 1906 concrete building under renovation in downtown Fort Dodge.

The Carnegie Apartments building is an architectural landmark in downtown Fort Dodge, built with money from Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. [Read the rest of the story in The Messenger /www.messengernews.net] See this post for more info.

Public Library, Danielson, CT

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Also known as Bugbee Memorial Library.

Classic Revival Style; Walter J. Paine, Architect; 1-story, hip-roofed buff brick building; elaborate pavilion with recessed arched opening’s classic details include freestanding columns within arched entry, crossetted entry surround, cornice with egg and dart molding and dentils, quoins, dentillated window caps, inspirational tablets along frieze; Palladian windows on side elevations; metal cresting along roof; interior largely original with oak mantels, columns and cornice. [Thanks to the Town of Killingly, CT www.killinglyct.gov]

Uses for old Carnegie Library Buildings

This just in from the Beaufort (SC) District Collection Collections and the South Carolina Digital Library:

"Andrew Carnegie was a great builder of libraries between 1886 and 1916, including the former Beaufort Township Library, on the corner of Craven and Carteret Streets. Like many of the former Carnegie Library buildings, the Beaufort Township Library has been adapted for use. When the Beaufort County Library moved across Craven Street in 1964, the the City of Beaufort took over the building. Given that the City has new quarters at the head of Ribaut Road, what should be done with the Carnegie Library now? A number of ideas have been floated. A recent AL Direct electronic newsletter carried a short article about bed and breakfasts. I wonder if anyone has given thought to having another bed and breakfast in town?"

Great question, not only for the Carnegie Libraries, but also many other architecturally beautiful early 20th century libraries that have outlived their practical usefulness as libraries. If your community has adapted their out-of-date libraries to some innovative purpose, why not contact BDCC and let them know! gracec@bcgov.net OR ashorthouse@bcgov.net.

Library, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

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Ellis Library is the main library on the MU campus.

Date designed: 1913
Date constructed: 1915
Architectural consultant: Jamieson & Spearl Architects
Named after: Elmer Ellis, MU President (1954-1963) and first president of the UM System (1963-1966). [SOURCE]

Reference Room, Los Angeles Public Library, California

Read about the art & architecture of the Los Angeles Central Library here. [LIB2423]

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University

"... Located in New Havem, Connecticut. Believed to be the largest building in the world entirely devoted to this purpose. The building of marble and granite is an architectural "conversation piece".

The building, of Vermont marble and granite, bronze and glass, was designed by Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; the George A. Fuller Construction Company was the general contractor. Work began on the building in 1960 and was completed in 1963. The white, gray-veined marble panes of the exterior are one and one-quarter inches thick and are framed by shaped light gray Vermont Woodbury granite. These marble panels filter light so that rare materials can be displayed without damage. From the exterior, however, the building's powerful stone geometry serves to dominate the space it occupies in Hewitt University Quadrangle, amidst neo-Classical and neo-Gothic neighbors. [SOURCE] [LIB1884]

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Carpenter Memorial Library, Manchester, New Hampshire

"Carpenter Memorial Library is the gift of Frank P. Carpenter to the City of Manchester, N.H. in 1914. A memorial to his wife Elenora Blood Carpenter. Italian Renaissance in style. In beauty, utility and convenience it has few rivals throughout the country. Constructed of white Vermont marble."

Soon after the death of his wife Elenora Blood Carpenter in January, 1910, the president of Amoskeag Paper Mill Frank Pierce Carpenter offered to construct a library building in her memory.

Frank Carpenter spared no expense in the planning and construction of the new library building. He hired architects Edward L. Tilton of New York and Edgar A.P. Newcomb of Honolulu to design the Italian Renaissance style building which would serve not only the then present needs but growth over many subsequent decades. [SOURCE]

Edward L. Tilton designed many libraries in the United States including: Springfield (Massachusetts) Central Library; Wilmington (Delaware) Public Library; Bayonne (New Jersey) Public Library; Elizabeth (New Jersey) Public Library, and many more. For a wonderful 15 page overview of Tilton and his architectural accomplishments, read (available as a PDF) Edward Lippincott Tilton, A Monograph on His Architectural Practice, researched and written by Lisa B. Mausolf with Elizabeth Durfee Hengen for The Currier Museum of Art (2007).

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MANCHESTER STREET CARS - IMAGES OF AMERICA [Manchester, New Hampshire]