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Carnegie Library, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
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[LIB11218] - The original Carnegie Library was built in a Classical Revival style of brick with limestone trim and a stone balustrade at the roof. The Greenpoint Star praised it on April 14, 1906 for its “tasteful simplicity." As Greenpoint became the center of a Polish community, English classes were offered and a well-stocked Polish book collection was acquired. The building, structurally unsafe, was demolished in 1970. In 1973 a new one-story library opened on the same site.
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Carnegie Library, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
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[LIB11200] - The original Greenpoint Branch, opened in 1906, was one of the first Carnegie Libraries to be constructed in the rapidly expanding Brooklyn Public Library system. Designed by architect R. L. Daus, the building occupied a corner lot at 107 Norman Avenue. The Greenpoint Star praised the library for its elegant simplicity, its golden oak woodwork and fine brasswork, and the Brooklyn Eagle noted reading rooms that were tastefully decorated with potted palms. By the 1930s excessive dampness and subsidence were causing the building to deteriorate. In 1970 the Department of General Services decided it would be too costly to renovate the building and tore it down. A new building on the site of the original Carnegie building opened on December 20, 1973. [Website]
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1974, Central Public Library, Interior, Brooklyn, New York
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[LIB11193] - Ground was broken for a Brooklyn central library on Prospect Park Plaza (Grand Army Plaza) in 1912. The design of the original architect Raymond Almirall called for a domed, four-story Beaux Arts building, similar in style to the nearby Brooklyn Museum. Escalating costs and political in-fighting helped slow construction throughout the decade. World War I and the Great Depression ensured that Almirall's building, whose Flatbush Avenue wing had been completed by 1929, would never be built. [Wikipedia]
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1907, Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, New York
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[LIB11099] Addressed to Miss Edith Finch (the author?), Franklin, New York and postmarked from Brooklyn on October 30 at 9:30 p.m. Pratt's Brooklyn Campus Library is located in the neighborhood of Clinton Hill, in a handsome 1896 landmark building with interiors by the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company. Collections and services are focused on the visual arts, architecture, design, creative writing, and allied fields. Additional materials of general interest support the general education curriculum. The library houses more than 200,000 volumes of print materials, including 600+ periodicals, rare books, and the college archives.
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Library, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
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[LIB10390] - The original Carnegie Library was built in a Classical Revival style of brick with limestone trim and a stone balustrade at the roof. The Greenpoint Star praised it on April 14, 1906 for its “tasteful simplicity." As Greenpoint became the center of a Polish community, English classes were offered and a well-stocked Polish book collection was acquired. The building, structurally unsafe was demolished in 1970. In 1973 a new one-story library opened on the same site. Although not as grand as its predecessor, it provides the community with a resource for knowledge and a meeting place for a new generation of library users.
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Public Library, Brooklyn, New York
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[LIB7715] The Circulation Hall or Ingersoll Building offers easy access to card catalogs, book charging and information desks, and subject divisions.
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Public Library, Eastern Parkway Branch, Brooklyn, New York
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[Z7055] Library, Brooklyn, New York Vintage Post Card by markomundo See other Library Postcards
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Public Library, Brooklyn, New York
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1913 Public Library, Prospect Park Branch, Brooklyn, NY
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[LIB3668] Known as "Prospect Branch" until 1975, Park Slope Branch began at the turn of the century with a small collection of natural history books housed in Prospect Park's Litchfield Mansion. It soon moved to a storefront on Ninth Street, and in 1906 a Carnegie library was built across the street. Interior features include a stained-glass archways supported by freestanding columns, two tiled fireplaces and a vaulted, stained-glass ceiling- original details that remains today. [Thanks to the Brooklyn Public Library www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org]
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