Library in Bayfront park, Miami, Florida

The park became the site of a new $1.2 main library facility in 1951. Two stories tall, with mezzanine levels, the marble clad building was airy and bright. The new building was the first central home for the city’s fledgling library system after several temporary venues in previous decades. Its location in the park, however, was unfortunate since it blocked the view of the bay from East Flagler Street. The outcry against the new building in the park prompted the state’s Garden Clubs to pressure the Florida Legislature to pass a law by the mid-1950s which prohibited the construction of additional structures in Bayfront Park. [SOURCE] [LIB2417]

The Russell Library, Middletown, Connecticut

"Established 1875. The renovated building is the former Christ Episcopal Church, where the first public High School classes in Connecticut were conducted, and where Samuel Colt was married."

Frances Russell established Russell Library in 1875 in memory of her husband, Samuel. The Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity had built the building on the corner of Broad and Court Streets in 1834, and Mrs. Russell purchased and remodeled it in the Roman Gothic Style. The building opened as the public library for the City of Middletown on April 5, 1876. In 1930, the City helped to add the Hubbard wing, and in 1972 completed the remodeled Children's Library, originally the First Federal Saving and Loan Association of Meriden, built in 1965. [SOURCE]

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Library, Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas, NV

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Public Library, Freeport, Illinois

A gift of Andrew Carnegie. [LIB2412]

Library, Bowers Mansion, Nevada

The Bowers Mansion was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley, and is the finest example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the Comstock mining boom. [SOURCE] [LIB2411]

Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kansas

Three views of the library. [LIB2410]