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The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is that the 1st Carnegie Library within the u. S.. Designed by William Halsey Wood in eclectic medieval vogue, it had been in-built 1888 and dedicated by industrialist on March thirty, 1889. Associate in Nursing addition in additional Richardson {romanesque|Romanesque|Romanesque architecture|architectural vogue|style of architecture|type of architecture} style by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (successors to HH Richardson) was additional in 1893. The library was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012,, following its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is on the metropolis History and Landmarks Foundation’s List of Historic Landmarks.
The Carnegie foundation provided a grant of $357,782 for its construction. Like a number of the opposite early Carnegie libraries, the building housed numerous recreational facilities for its users, together with table game tables on the primary floor. (Carnegie was himself quite keen on table game, that was quite trendy at the time.) A bathhouse within the basement, originally accessed by a tunnel beneath the exterior door, provided Carnegie’s millworkers with an area to shower (at a time once indoor plumbing wasn’t the norm) before victimisation the facilities. Currently re-purposed as a pottery studio, the covered walls and floor stay, suggesting its original purpose.
The 1893 addition around doubled the scale of the building, and brought several more amenities not typically related to a library, together with a 964-seat Music Hall, a gymnasium, a pool (beneath the Music hall), and a multilane bowling pin alley. A minimum of within the early years, the athletic/recreational facilities were offered to members of the “Carnegie Club” WHO paid a modest quarterly fee. Staff of any Carnegie-owned company received a five hundredth discount, that in 1903 amounted to $1/quarter.
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