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The following list of Carnegie libraries in West Virginia provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in West Virginia, where 3 public libraries were built from 3 grants (totaling $81,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1907. In addition, one academic library was built. Communities who rejected Carnegie grants often did so because they were unable to raise the 10 percent annual maintenance fee that Carnegie required or they did not have an adequate building site available. The towns of Bluefield and Williamson were both unable to provide a suitable building site for a new library. Leaders in the Charleston community did not think the Carnegie grant was substantial enough to build a library that would adequately serve their population. Officials at the time said Charleston "should have a more commodious library than $45,000 would erect."^[1] Carnegie refused to modify the award and a bond proposal to raise more funds in 1915 failed. In Wheeling, labor leaders ensured that the town would not receive a Carnegie award; they effectively boycotted the municipal bond levy due to the deaths of steelworkers at Carnegie's Homestead, Pennsylvania mill during the 1892 strike.^[1]

Public libraries

Library

City or
town

Image

Date
granted^[2]

Grant
amount^[2]

Location

Notes

Hinton

1907|Apr|8}}

$12,500

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The library was built in 1911-12.^[3]

Huntington

1901|Dec|30}}

$35,000

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After opening July 27, 1904, this library served the community until 1980, when a new library opened across the street. This building is currently Huntington Junior College.

Parkersburg

1903|Dec|29}}

$34,000

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Opened on October 5, 1905, this library closed in 1976 when a new library was built. It later housed Trans-Allegheny Books, the largest used bookstore in West Virginia. The bookstore closed in 2010.^[4]

N/A

Wheeling

$75,000

N/A

"Grant approved for Wheeling Library Aug 12, 1899, refused by community"^[5]

Academic library

Institution

Town

Image

Date
granted^[6]

Grant
amount^[6]

Location

Notes

Bethany College

Bethany

1905|Feb|16}}

$20,000

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Serving as a library until 1960, this building reopened as Cramblet Hall on June 3, 1961 and has since housed various offices.^[7]

Notes

1. ^¹{{Cite web|url=http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/970|title=e-WV {{!}} Carnegie Libraries|website=www.wvencyclopedia.org|access-date=2017-11-13}}
2. ^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.
3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://hin.stparchive.com/Archive/HIN/HIN12271983P16.php?tags=carnegie%20library|title=The Hinton News December 27 Page 16|access-date=2017-11-13}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.electricearl.com/parkersburg/highschool-old.html|title=Parkersburg High School & (Old) Carnegie Library|last=Dawson|first=Jim|accessdate=2009-07-16}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/timelines/970/list|title=e-WV {{!}} Key Dates for Carnegie Libraries|website=www.wvencyclopedia.org|access-date=2017-11-13}}
6. ^¹Miller, pp. 38–40
7. ^{{cite book|last=Carney|first=Brent|title=Bethany College|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston, SC|year=2004|isbn=0-7385-1660-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tT3vd6vKOuUC&lpg=PA31&ots=Q_t9pYKnqX&dq=bethany%20college%20west%20virginia%20carnegie%20library&pg=PA31}}

References

{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=Florence|title=Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961|publisher=Carnegie Corporation|location=New York|year=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|year=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|year=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|year=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.

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