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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Lawrence City Library, 200 West 9th Street, Lawrence, Douglas County, KS
• Other Title: Carnegie Building
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Carnegie Corporation
     Carnegie, Andrew
     Berlinghof, George A.
     Lawrence Arts Center
     Emery, Peter
     Shawe, George A.
     Treanor HL Architects
     Beatty, Nellie G.
     Constant, Lillian
     U.S. Public Works Administration
     Lawrence Department of Parks & Recreation
     McPartland, Mary , transmitter
     Stranieri, Marcella , transmitter
     Dold , Kennedy Younger , historian
     Lavoie, Catherine C. , project manager
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Data Page(s): 68
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS KS-85
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: The Lawrence City Library opened in 1904 as the result of decades of support to establish a public library in Lawrence, Kansas. Funding came from an initial $25,000 grant from Scottish-American industrialist, Andrew Carnegie. It is one of fifty-nine Carnegie-funded library buildings in Kansas, 1,795 in the United States, and 2,509 worldwide. This connects it both regionally and to the wider national and international framework of libraries funded by the Carnegie Corporation in the United States and abroad. The site’s significance lies most, however, in its connection to its community. Throughout its history, the building serviced Lawrence by lending books, providing access to new technology, offering training classes for students, and establishing a successful Children’s Department. Cited as one of the earliest non-segregated cultural spaces in Lawrence, with patrons including a young Langston Hughes, the library would become an important educational center in Lawrence. Furthermore, academic connections formed through the librarians with Lawrence Public Schools, University of Kansas, and Haskell Indian Nations University encouraged further education for all patrons. The impact of the library was recorded through continuous Annual Reports, largely written by female Head Librarians, many of whom held college degrees in Library Science. Multi-generations of female leaders were directly engaged in local and national events including the Lawrence Massacre (1863), Great Depression, and both World Wars. Their leadership in the library engendered formal and informal civic prestige in a time when many women were still discouraged from attaining higher education and public office. In fact, many of them actively engaged in the training of other female librarians. The building ceased functioning as a library in 1972 with the opening of a larger location in the nearby vicinity. The building was re-purposed from 1975 to 2002 as the Lawrence Arts Center. From 2010, it has been referred to as the “Carnegie Building” and is currently under the auspice of the Lawrence Department of Parks and Recreation. It dually functions as a public community building with gallery spaces and offices for Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area and other local focus groups. The building’s use demonstrates continued investment, community support, and development in the area for historical and educational engagement. The building remains a significant component to the wider Historic Downtown Lawrence conservation zone as both the original Library, the original home to the Lawrence Arts Center, and its present use by the Lawrence Department of Parks and Recreation. It was listed on the National Register for Historic Buildings in 1975.
  • Survey number: HABS KS-85
  • Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 2010 Subsequent Work
• Subjects:
  • libraries
  • Neo-Classical architectural elements
  • pavilions (building divisions)
  • educational facilities
  • public works
• Place:
  • Kansas--Douglas County--Lawrence
• Latitude/Longitude: 38.96788, -95.237442
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS KS-85
• Medium: Data Page(s): 68

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• Call Number: HABS KS-85
• Medium: Data Page(s): 68

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