The following list of Carnegie libraries in the United States provides detailed information on public Carnegie libraries in each state or other territory in the United States, including the number of Carnegie libraries in that state, and the earliest and latest dates of grant award. Click on the state name to go to a detailed listing of the individual Carnegie libraries in that state (divided into public and academic sections). Note that Alaska and Delaware have no Carnegie libraries, and are thus not included in the table.
Detail table
edit| State | Number of public grants[1] |
Number of public libraries[1] |
Number of academic libraries[2] |
Earliest grant[3] |
Latest grant[3] |
Total amount (US$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 14 | 14 | 5 | Feb 13, 1901 | May 15, 1916 | $289,840.00 |
| Arizona | 4 | 4 | — | Jul 4, 1899 | Sep 14, 1917 | $64,000.00 |
| Arkansas | 4 | 4 | — | Mar 24, 1906 | Sep 20, 1915 | $138,600.00 |
| California | 121 | 142 | 2 | Jul 7, 1899 | Sep 14, 1917 | $2,836,987.00 |
| Colorado | 27 | 35[A] | 1 | Dec 21, 1899 | Feb 3, 1917 | $779,943.00 |
| Connecticut | 8 | 11 | — | Aug 16, 1901 | Sep 25, 1914 | $191,900.00 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 4 | 1 | Mar 16, 1899 | Mar 16, 1899 | $732,000.00 |
| Florida | 10 | 10 | 4 | Dec 30, 1901 | Feb 3, 1917 | $254,500.00 |
| Georgia | 20 | 24 | 5 | Oct 3, 1898 | Jun 11, 1914 | $613,756.00 |
| Idaho | 10 | 10 | — | Feb 12, 1903 | Mar 11, 1914 | $137,500.00 |
| Illinois | 105 | 106 | 5 | Aug 8, 1900 | Sep 29, 1915 | $1,751,200.00 |
| Indiana | 156 | 165 | 2 | Jan 15, 1901 | Mar 11, 1918 | $2,588,664.38 |
| Iowa | 99 | 101 | 7 | Jan 15, 1892 | Nov 7, 1917 | $1,705,706.00 |
| Kansas | 58 | 59 | 7 | Jan 3, 1900 | Nov 9, 1916 | $1,070,496.00 |
| Kentucky | 15 | 23 | 4 | Oct 30, 1899 | Apr 13, 1914 | $896,800.00 |
| Louisiana | 4 | 9 | — | Oct 17, 1901 | Apr 8, 1907 | $380,000.00 |
| Maine | 18[B] | 18 | 2 | Jan 15, 1901 | Feb 15, 1912 | $311,450.00 |
| Maryland | 1 | 14 | — | Nov 10, 1906 | Nov 10, 1906 | $500,000.00 |
| Massachusetts | 35 | 43 | 5 | Mar 8, 1901 | Feb 3, 1917 | $1,651,346.00 |
| Michigan | 53 | 61 | — | Feb 6, 1901 | Apr 16, 1918 | $1,655,950.00 |
| Minnesota | 57 | 65[C] | 1 | Oct 7, 1899 | Nov 7, 1917 | $998,975.00[D] |
| Mississippi | 10 | 11 | 2 | Dec 2, 1904 | Nov 22, 1923 | $235,000.00 |
| Missouri | 26 | 33 | 2 | Oct 28, 1899 | May 2, 1921 | $1,555,143.84 |
| Montana | 17 | 17 | — | Jun 21, 1901 | Oct 29, 1918 | $226,700.00 |
| Nebraska | 68 | 69 | — | Dec 20, 1899 | Sep 14, 1917 | $706,288.00 |
| Nevada | 1 | 1 | — | Mar 14, 1902 | Mar 14, 1902 | $15,000.00 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | 9 | 1 | Mar 14, 1902 | Dec 13, 1907 | $154,000.00 |
| New Jersey | 30[E] | 36[E] | — | Jan 18, 1900 | Apr 3, 1917 | $1,066,935.03 |
| New Mexico | 3 | 3 | — | Mar 14, 1902 | Jan 23, 1911 | $32,000.00 |
| New York (New York City alone) |
41 (1) |
106 (66) |
3 (—) |
Dec 8, 1899 | Dec 22, 1922 | $6,697,149.00 |
| North Carolina | 9 | 10 | 6 | Mar 12, 1901 | Sep 14, 1917 | $294,313.71 |
| North Dakota | 8 | 8 | 3 | Mar 6, 1901 | Jan 28, 1916 | $201,100.00 |
| Ohio | 79[F] | 106[F] | 7 | Jun 30, 1899 | May 2, 1921 | $3,239,928.64 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | 24 | 1 | Oct 27, 1899 | Mar 31, 1916 | $494,500.00 |
| Oregon | 25 | 31 | 1 | Feb 21, 1901 | Jan 6, 1915 | $498,000.00 |
| Pennsylvania (Allegheny County) (Philadelphia alone) |
27 (12) (1) |
59 (19) (25) |
9 (2) (1) |
1886 | May 3, 1917 | $5,610,587.00[G] |
| Rhode Island | — | — | 1 | Mar 30, 1905 | Mar 30, 1905 | $150,000.00 |
| South Carolina | 14 | 14 | 4 | Jan 13, 1903 | May 15, 1916 | $189,700.00 |
| South Dakota | 25 | 25 | 2 | Jan 24, 1901 | May 3, 1917 | $311,000.00 |
| Tennessee | 10 | 13 | 7 | Dec 27, 1900 | Jan 11, 1917 | $605,500.00 |
| Texas | 30 | 32 | 1 | Apr 30, 1898 | Apr 19, 1915 | $664,500.00 |
| Utah | 23 | 23 | — | Mar 9, 1901 | Sep 26, 1919 | $255,470.00 |
| Vermont | 4 | 4 | 1 | Jul 25, 1901 | Mar 18, 1911 | $105,000.00 |
| Virginia | 2 | 3 | 4 | Mar 8, 1901 | Dec 14, 1921 | $253,000.00 |
| Washington | 33 | 44[H] | — | Jan 6, 1901 | Nov 9, 1916 | $1,046,000.00 |
| West Virginia | 3 | 3 | 1 | Dec 30, 1901 | Apr 8, 1907 | $101,500.00 |
| Wisconsin | 60 | 63 | 2 | Feb 13, 1901 | Sep 29, 1915 | $1,149,511.50 |
| Wyoming | 16 | 16 | — | Dec 27, 1899 | Apr 3, 1917 | $257,500.00 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 1 | — | Nov 29, 1909 | Nov 29, 1909 | $100,000.00 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1 | — | October 4, 1901 | October 4, 1901 | $100,000.00 |
| Totals | 1,419 | 1,687 | 109 | 1886 | Nov 22, 1923 | $45,865,440.10 |
- A: ^ Owing to confusion from Old Colorado City's incorporation into Colorado Springs, Jones counts a library twice and reports this figure as 36.
- B: ^ Bobinski and Miller do not list Gardiner as having received a full grant because its grant was to complete an unfinished building (noted in Anderson and Miller); Anderson and Jones include it.
- C: ^ Jones erroneously reports this number as 64, while Bobinski reports the number of grants at 58. However, all four references list 65 libraries in their gazetteers; Anderson, Jones, and Miller list 57 grants.
- D: ^ No reference tallies this number correctly for the public libraries. The amount is reported as $962,475 by Anderson, who for unknown reasons omits Walker from his list. Bobinski and Miller list Walker, but sum to $969,375. However, their gazetteers sum to $968,975 which, when added to $30,000 grant for the academic library in Saint Paul, confirms the above figure.
- E: ^ Bobinski and Miller do not list Orange's library in summary tables, but note in their full listings that the community received a small grant toward the purchase of a branch library.
- F: ^ Bobinski and Miller summarize 105 Ohio libraries, though Miller's summary details 107. Jones, who investigated the branch libraries of Cleveland and Cincinnati, arrives at 106, the most authoritative number.
- G: ^ This figure includes the cost of the central library in Pittsburgh, which Miller does not include.
- H: ^ Bobinski and Miller claim there are just 43 libraries in Washington but detail 44 in their summary tables, which matches the other references.
Map
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Notes
edit- ^ a b At various times, references disagree on these numbers with each other. In these cases, an attempt has been made to note the discrepancy and report the correct number. In general, Anderson's and Miller's works were relied on most.
- ^ Miller, pp. 38–40
- ^ a b These dates were compiled from the microfilm records of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, archived at Columbia University, New York City.
References
edit- Anderson, Florence (1963). Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382.
- Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4.
- Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3.
- Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611.
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.