Carnegie Libraries in England

Chapters: List of Carnegie Libraries in Europe, St Annes-On-The-Sea Carnegie Library, Carnegie Library, Runcorn, Marc-Louis Solon, Grantham Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is an incomplete list of Carnegie libraries in Europe. The University Library, Leuven, Belgium The University Library, Leuven, after fire damage in the First World WarA Carnegie library was built in the 1920s for the University of Leuven to replace a building destroyed in the First World War. Funding came from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which also built libraries in the war-damaged cities of Rheims and Belgrade. The architect of the Leuven library was Whitney Warren. Although the architect was American, he employed a Flemish style for this commission. His building in turn suffered severe damage in the Second World War, but has been restored. (For more details of this library, see Catholic University of Leuven#Library.) The Carnegie library of Reims is the single Carnegie library in France. Reims was devastated in the First World War and the losses included library accommodation in the town-hall. The provision of a new library was conceived as a contribution to the city's reconstruction. Reims was one of three "front-line" cities to be given a Carnegie library, the other two being Leuven and Belgrade. The Art Deco building was finished in 1927, and opened the following year in the presence of Gaston Doumergue, the French President and Myron T. Herrick, the US ambassador. The building was restored at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The library stock includes some material which survived the First World War. Carnegie Library Lighthouse Service Rathmines Carnegie Library (1913)Carnegie libraries are to be found throughout the island of Ire...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2326994