“List of Carnegie libraries in Maine”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The following list of Carnegie libraries in Maine provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Maine, where 18 public libraries were built from 18 grants (totaling $241,450) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1912. In addition, academic libraries were built at 2 institutions (totaling $70,000).

Public libraries

Library

City or
town

Image

Date
granted^[1]

Grant
amount^[1]

Location

Notes^[2]

Auburn

1903|Jan|13}}

$25,000

{{coord>44|5|52.59|N|70|13|44.66|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Auburn Public Library}}

Opening on August 1, 1904, this William R. Miller of Portland design has been renovated and expanded in 1956, 1978, and 2005.^[3]

Caribou

1910|Mar|21}}

$10,000

{{coord>46|51|39.06|N|68|0|39.69|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Caribou Public Library}}

Fort Fairfield

1911|Feb|20}}

$10,000

{{coord>46|46|2.97|N|67|48|0.62|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Fort Fairfield Public Library}}

Built in 1913, this library added a wing in 1993.

Freeport

1905|Mar|14}}

$6,500

{{coord>43|51|19.51|N|70|6|23.15|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=B.H. Bartol Library (Freeport)}}

Gardiner

1897|12|22}}

$2,500

{{coord>44|13|43.44|N|69|46|15.48|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Gardiner Public Library}}

Gardiner's grant was to complete an unfinished library.^[4]^[5] It was designed and begun in 1881 by local architect Henry Richards.

Guilford

1908|Mar|21}}

$5,750

{{coord>45|10|14.63|N|69|22|59.89|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Guilford Public Library}}

Houlton

1903|Jan|13}}

$10,000

{{coord>46|7|32.6|N|67|50|9.39|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Cary Library (Houlton)}}

This library was designed by architect John Calvin Stevens of Portland in the Colonial Revival style, and it was renovated in 1968 and 1991.

Lewiston

1901|Jan|15}}

$60,000

{{coord>44|5|44.46|N|70|12|57.33|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Lewiston Public Library}}

A Coombs and Gibbs design, this building was significantly renovated in 1996, including moving the main entrance one block to the west.

Madison

1904|Jun|2}}

$8,000

{{coord>44|47|48.09|N|69|52|47.03|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Madison Public Library}}

This building was designed by the Madison architectural firm of Snow & Humphreys.

Milo

1908|Sep|30}}

$8,500

{{coord>45|15|12.88|N|68|59|10.02|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Milo Free Public Library}}

Construction for this Frederick A. Patterson of Bangor design (based largely on Plan F from the leaflet distributed by James Bertram, Carnegie's secretary) did not begin until May 1922.^[6]

Oakland

1912|Feb|15}}

$10,000

{{coord>44|32|46.56|N|69|43|10.34|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Oakland Public Library}}

Old Town

1903|Feb|12}}

$10,000

{{coord>44|56|7.45|N|68|38|53.25|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Old Town Public Library}}

A neoclassical work by New York architect Albert Randolph Ross, this library was expanded in 1991.

Pittsfield

1903|Mar|20}}

$10,000

{{coord>44|46|55.18|N|69|22|59.75|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Pittsfield Public Library}}

Architect Albert Randolph Ross would later use this Beaux-Arts design for the Warsaw, New York library. A Civil War monument was built to coincide with the building's dedication in 1904.

Presque Isle

1906|May|15}}

$10,000

{{coord>46|41|0.13|N|68|0|49.85|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library (Presque Isle)}}

An addition to this Astle and Page of Houlton work in 1967 significantly changed the look of this library.

Rockland

1902|Apr|11}}

$20,000

{{coord>44|6|19.05|N|69|6|43.67|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Rockland Library}}

Opening April 26, 1904, this Clough and Wardner of Boston-designed library was notably visited by President Taft in 1910.^[7]

Rumford

1903|Jan|22}}

$10,000

{{coord>44|32|49.57|N|70|32|56.93|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Rumford Public Library}}

Vinalhaven

1906|Apr|22}}

$5,200

{{coord>44|2|58.95|N|68|49|52.37|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Vinalhaven Public Library}}

This building was dedicated August 15, 1907. Designed by Clough and Wardner of Boston, it is in the Prairie School style.^[8]

Waterville

1902|Apr|28}}

$20,000

{{coord>44|33|4.59|N|69|37|55.05|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Waterville Public Library}}

The work of Lewiston architect William R. Miller, this building has been renovated twice.

Academic libraries

Institution

Locality

Image

Year
granted^[9]

Grant
amount^[9]

Location

Notes

Good Will Home Association

Fairfield

1905|Mar|30}}

$15,000

{{coord>44|40|39.68|N|69|38|0.07|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=Good Will Home Association Library}}

Designed by Albert Randolph Ross, this library was dedicated May 29, 1907. It is now part of the Good Will-Hinckley campus.

University of Maine

Orono

1905|Feb|7}}

$55,000

{{coord>44|53|52.84|N|68|40|16.12|W|type:landmark_region:US-ME|name=University of Maine Library}}

Designed in the Greek Revival style, this building was a library until 1947. It now houses art studio space.

Notes

1. ^¹At various times, Bobinski and Jones disagree on these numbers. In these cases, Jones' numbers have been used due to both a more recent publication date and a more detailed gazetteer of branch libraries, which are often where the discrepancies occur.
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.necarnegies.com|title=New England Carnegies: honoring the public libraries that Andrew Carnegie helped to fund|last=Smith|first=Corinne H|accessdate=2009-07-22}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.auburn.lib.me.us/history.html |title=History |publisher=Auburn Public Library |accessdate=2009-07-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804192330/http://www.auburn.lib.me.us/history.html |archivedate=August 4, 2007 }}
4. ^Anderson, p. 43.
5. ^Because of the uniqueness of its grant, Gardiner is not listed as a Carnegie library in Bobinski. However, Anderson, Jones, and Miller all count it, with two authors attaching a footnote.
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.trcmaine.org/visitors/landmarks/?landmark=library|title=Milo Public Library has Interesting History|last=Bradeen|first=Edna L.|date=June 26, 1985|work=Piscataquis Observer|accessdate=2009-07-22|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090518052139/http://www.trcmaine.org/visitors/landmarks/?landmark=library|archivedate=May 18, 2009|df=}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklandlibrary.org/cs/?render=page&callname=history|title=Rockland Library|accessdate=2009-07-22}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/WWW/Library_News.html|title=Building for Another 100 Years|publisher=Vinalhaven Public Library|accessdate=2009-07-22|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728161635/http://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/WWW/Library_News.html|archivedate=2011-07-28|df=}}
9. ^¹Miller, pp. 38–40

References

{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=Florence|title=Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961|publisher=Carnegie Corporation|location=New York|date=1963|oclc=1282382|ref=Anderson}}

{{cite book|last=Bobinski|first=George S.|title=Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development|publisher=American Library Association|location=Chicago|date=1969|isbn=0-8389-0022-4|ref=Bobinski}}

{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Theodore|title=Carnegie Libraries Across America|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=New York|date=1997|isbn=0-471-14422-3|ref=Jones}}

{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Durand R.|title=Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917|publisher=Carnegie Corporation of New York|location=New York|date=1943|oclc=2603611|ref=Miller}}

Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.

Key

Public libraries

Academic libraries

Notes

References

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