Hendon Library was established by Andrew Carnegie for the benefit of Sunderland on land gifted by Thomas William and Arthur Backhouse. It was opened on October 19 1908 by Samuel Storey, an MP who ...

Cincinnati’s first nine branch libraries were funded by Andrew Carnegie, who gave millions of dollars to fund library ...

Carnegie donated $300,000 to build Washington, D.C.'s oldest library — a beautiful beaux arts building that dates back to 1903. Inscribed above the doorway are the words: Science, Poetry, History.

Andrew Carnegie took the reins of a nascent public library movement and scaled up. From 1886 to 1919, Carnegie funded the design and construction of nearly 1,700 public library buildings in over ...

Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide with nearly 1,700 built in the United States. Today, two of them are still standing in Nashville.