List of Carnegie libraries in Alabama

Anniston

Avondale
Ensley
West End

Bessemer

Eufaula

Gadsden

Huntsville

Montgomery

Selma

Talladega

Troy

Union Springs

Alabama Carnegie libraries

The following list of Carnegie libraries in Alabama provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Alabama, where 14 public libraries were built from 14 grants (totaling $195,800) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1916. In addition, academic libraries were built at 5 institutions (totaling $94,040).

1 Key
2 Public libraries
3 Academic libraries
4 Notes
5 References

Key

      Building still operating as a library
      Building standing, but now serving another purpose
      Building no longer standing

Public libraries

	Library	City or town	Date granted	Grant amount	Location
1	Anniston	Anniston	01916-05-15 May 15, 1916	$20,000	Wilmer Ave. & E 10th St.
2	Avondale	Avondale	01907-12-13 December 13, 1907	$10,000
3	Bessemer	Bessemer	01906-02-13 February 13, 1906	$10,000	321 18th St. N
4	Decatur	Decatur	01903-02-12 February 12, 1903	$12,000	207 Church St. NE
5	Ensley	Ensley	01905-03-25 March 25, 1905	$10,000
6	Eufaula	Eufaula	01903-02-02 February 2, 1903	$10,000	217 N Eufaula Ave.
7	Gadsden	Gadsden	01903-11-18 November 18, 1903	$10,000	2700 Elliott Ave.
8	Huntsville	Huntsville	01914-05-08 May 8, 1914	$12,500
9	Montgomery	Montgomery	01901-02-13 February 13, 1901	$50,000	100 S Lawrence St.
10	Selma	Selma	01903-04-13 April 13, 1903	$11,800	912 Selma Avenue
11	Talladega	Talladega	01906-02-13 February 13, 1906	$12,500	200 South St. E
12	Troy	Troy	01908-04-06 April 6, 1908	$10,000	306 E Academy St.
13	Union Springs	Union Springs	01911-01-06 January 6, 1911	$7,000	103 Prarie St. N
14	West End	West End	01909-02-01 February 1, 1909	$10,000	Tuscaloosa Ave. SW & 13th St. SW

Academic libraries

	Institution	City or town	Date granted^[1]	Grant amount^[1]	Location
1	Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University	Normal	01904-03-10 March 10, 1904	$16,540	Buchanan Way
2	Alabama Polytechnic Institute	Auburn	01905-03-27 March 27, 1905	$30,000	W. Thatch Avenue
3	Judson College	Marion	01906-03-12 March 12, 1906	$12,500
4	Talladega College	Talladega	01904-01-16 January 16, 1904	$15,000
5	Tuskegee University	Tuskegee	01900-12-20 December 20, 1900	$20,000

Notes

^ ^a ^b Miller, pp. 38–40

References

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Anderson, Florence (1963). Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382.
Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0838900224.
Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471144223.
Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611.

Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references (usually Jones) without support from the others.

U.S. Carnegie libraries by state

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Federal district	District of Columbia

Other	Puerto Rico

Other Carnegie libraries: Africa, the Caribbean, and Oceania • Canada • Europe

State of Alabama

Montgomery (capital)

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Larger cities	Anniston Auburn Birmingham Decatur Dothan Florence Gadsden Hoover Huntsville Madison Mobile Montgomery Tuscaloosa

Counties	Autauga Baldwin Barbour Bibb Blount Bullock Butler Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Chilton Choctaw Clarke Clay Cleburne Coffee Colbert Conecuh Coosa Covington Crenshaw Cullman Dale Dallas DeKalb Elmore Escambia Etowah Fayette Franklin Geneva Greene Hale Henry Houston Jackson Jefferson Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Lee Limestone Lowndes Macon Madison Marengo Marion Marshall Mobile Monroe Montgomery Morgan Perry Pickens Pike Randolph Russell Shelby St. Clair Sumter Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa Walker Washington Wilcox Winston

List of Carnegie libraries in Alabama

Contents

Key

Public libraries

Academic libraries

Notes

References