Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny

Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is located in Pittsburgh
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is located in Pennsylvania
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is located in the United States
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
LocationAllegheny Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°27′11″N 80°0′19″W / 40.45306°N 80.00528°W / 40.45306; -80.00528
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1886–90
ArchitectSmithmeyer & Pelz
Architectural styleRomanesque Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.74001736[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 1, 1974
Designated CPHSMarch 15, 1974[2]
Designated PHLF1970[3]

The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is situated in the Allegheny Center neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was commissioned in 1886, the first Carnegie library to be commissioned in the United States. Donated to the public by entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, it was built from 1886 to 1890 on a design by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz.

The library and musical conservatory was built of red and grey granite from Maine.[4] The contractor was Vinalhaven, Maine's Bodwell Granite Company, which had furnished granite for major public works including the State, War and Navy Department building in Washington, DC., now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.[5]

It did not open until 1890 thus making it the second Carnegie library to open. The first one to open being the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock, built for steel-workers in Braddock, 9 miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh.

The building also features the first Carnegie Music Hall in the United States. The Music Hall at the Braddock Library would not open until an 1893 expansion of that structure.

The running costs were met from local taxes – unlike the Carnegie Library in Braddock, which received an endowment from Carnegie.[6] After a mid-2000s lightning strike, the library was moved to a new building a few blocks north on Federal Street. Following the move, the New Hazlett Theater was the primary tenant. In April 2019, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh opened Museum Lab, a makerspace for youth aged 10+.[7]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

  • Reading Room, ca. 1900
    Reading Room, ca. 1900
  • Women's Reading Room, ca. 1900
    Women's Reading Room, ca. 1900
  • Library entrance
    Library entrance
  • Carnegie Hall entrance (now New Hazlett Theater)
    Carnegie Hall entrance (now New Hazlett Theater)
  • Monument to Colonel James Anderson, who inspired Carnegie to donate free libraries
    Monument to Colonel James Anderson, who inspired Carnegie to donate free libraries

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Local Historic Designations". Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
  3. ^ Historic Landmark Plaques 1968–2009 (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2010.
  4. ^ "Vinalhaven Echo, October 7, 1887" (PDF). reprinted in The Wind. October 6, 2022.
  5. ^ Grindle, Roger (October 1, 1976). "Bodwell Blue: The Story of Vinalhaven's Granite Industry". Maine History Journal. Maine History (16). Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  6. ^ Walsh, Glenn A. (December 2007). "Historical Significance of the Allegheny Regional Branch of The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh". andrewcarnegie2.tripod.com. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  7. ^ "museumlab.org website". Museum Lab. Archived from the original on May 17, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2019.

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