The library was started in the late 19th century, and was incorporated in 1916 with a $30,000 grant from steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie. LONG BRANCH -- While a violinist and bassist played classical ...

For most of my life, I’ve been interested in matters of scale — the extremes, from the unknowable vastness of our universe to ...

But few such places so capture the imagination as the apartments hidden inside the mansion-like public branch libraries funded more than a century ago by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

T he Carnegie libraries were part of a philanthropic venture by steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie. There were 2,509 ...

The Carnegie library was a building that lay dormant in Victoria for years, until finding a new lease on life last year.

Interior of Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh Not all Carnegie libraries ... it seemed as if the entire English-speaking world joined the debate over Andrew Carnegie's latest venture for world peace ...

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Andrew's father was a weaver ... of Peace who is returning weapons to each ruler, 1907. Courtesy: Library of Congress. Carnegie lived for another five years, but the last entry in his ...

Carnegie library was closed early this year after the service was relocated to a new health hub on Duke Street.

March through December, the rise was about 20%. Andrew Medlar is director and president of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. “If you look at our communities, people wanted more after hours and ...