Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library, Seattle Central Library, Ballard Carnegie Library, Timberland Regional Library, Bellingham Public Library. Excerpt: Ballard Carnegie Library The library's check-out desk, circa 1907. Rear view, 2007 The Ballard Carnegie Library, also known until 1963 as the Seattle Public Library Ballard Branch, is a historic library in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle, Washington . The library was predated by a freeholders' library in the 1860s, which eventually gave way to a reading room that was organized and funded by a women's' group in 1901. With a grant for $15,000, among other funds, a new library for the then independent City of Ballard was created as a Carnegie library . The building, located at 2026 N.W. Market Street in downtown Ballard, opened to the public on June 24, 1904. Notable as the first major branch of the Seattle public library system, after Seattle annexed the City of Ballard into itself in 1907, and for employing one of the first African American librarians in Seattle, the Ballard Carnegie Library was in service until 1963, when a newer and more modern facility replaced it. After its sale, the old library building housed a variety of private commercial enterprises, including an antique shop, a restaurant and a kilt manufacturer. After being nominated in 1976 for the recognition by Seattle architect Larry E. Johnson, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979 (ID #79002535). History In the late 1860s, when Ballard was a new settlement along the edge of Salmon Bay, a homesteader named Ira Wilcox Utter helped create a freeholders' library. Later, in 1901, the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Ballard began raising money with fairs and socials fo...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carnegie Libraries in Washington (U.S. State): Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library. To get started finding Carnegie Libraries in Washington (U.S. State): Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
48
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155823451
Carnegie Libraries in Washington (U.S. State): Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library, Seattle Central Library, Ballard Carnegie Library, Timberland Regional Library, Bellingham Public Library. Excerpt: Ballard Carnegie Library The library's check-out desk, circa 1907. Rear view, 2007 The Ballard Carnegie Library, also known until 1963 as the Seattle Public Library Ballard Branch, is a historic library in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle, Washington . The library was predated by a freeholders' library in the 1860s, which eventually gave way to a reading room that was organized and funded by a women's' group in 1901. With a grant for $15,000, among other funds, a new library for the then independent City of Ballard was created as a Carnegie library . The building, located at 2026 N.W. Market Street in downtown Ballard, opened to the public on June 24, 1904. Notable as the first major branch of the Seattle public library system, after Seattle annexed the City of Ballard into itself in 1907, and for employing one of the first African American librarians in Seattle, the Ballard Carnegie Library was in service until 1963, when a newer and more modern facility replaced it. After its sale, the old library building housed a variety of private commercial enterprises, including an antique shop, a restaurant and a kilt manufacturer. After being nominated in 1976 for the recognition by Seattle architect Larry E. Johnson, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979 (ID #79002535). History In the late 1860s, when Ballard was a new settlement along the edge of Salmon Bay, a homesteader named Ira Wilcox Utter helped create a freeholders' library. Later, in 1901, the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Ballard began raising money with fairs and socials fo...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Carnegie Libraries in Washington (U.S. State): Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library. To get started finding Carnegie Libraries in Washington (U.S. State): Seattle Public Library, List of Carnegie Libraries in Washington, Everett Public Library, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.