Carnegie Library - Revision history

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 [[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg|thumb|300px|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]]
-Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908.
+Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure, designed by local architect [[Charles L. Thompson]], opened in 1908.
 Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah M. Rose]] and physician [[William E. Green]]. The Uriah Rose room contained seven thousand volumes, most of them in French. The Green Room was reserved for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other literary and social club meetings. The Charles H. Brough Room, named for former governor [[Charles Hillman Brough]], contained volumes on the subject of Arkansas. In 1915 the library held 15,901 volumes.
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 A substantial three-story annex was added to the library in 1939.
-The Main Library was bulldozed to make way for a former Modernist-style public library that today houses a business data center. The [[Main Library]] of the [[Central Arkansas Library System]] is now located in the [[River Market District]].
+The Carnegie Library was bulldozed in 1964 to make way for a Modernist-style public library that today houses an [[Entergy]] business data center. The [[Main Library]] of the [[Central Arkansas Library System]] is now located in the [[River Market District]].
 ====Librarians====
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 *Arkansas Writers' Project, ''Arkansas: A Guide to the State'' (Works Progress Administration, 1941), 177.
 *Bernie Babcock, ''Yesterday and Today in Arkansas: A Folio of Rare and Interesting Pictures from Mrs. Babcock's Collection for Stories and Legends of Arkansas'' (Jordan & Foster Printing Co., 1917), n.p.
 *"News from the Field," ''Public Libraries 23 (1918): 151.
 *Kane Webb, "Beauty and Blight: Little Rock's Diametrical Downtown," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' October 7, 2007.

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 *Arkansas Writers' Project, ''Arkansas: A Guide to the State'' (Works Progress Administration, 1941), 177.
 *Bernie Babcock, ''Yesterday and Today in Arkansas: A Folio of Rare and Interesting Pictures from Mrs. Babcock's Collection for Stories and Legends of Arkansas'' (Jordan & Foster Printing Co., 1917), n.p.
 *Kane Webb, "Beauty and Blight: Little Rock's Diametrical Downtown," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' October 7, 2007.

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 [[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg|thumb|300px|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]]
-Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s was [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah M. Rose]] and physician [[William E. Green]]. The Uriah Rose room contained seven thousand volumes, most of them in French. The Green Room was reserved for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other literary and social club meetings. The Charles H. Brough Room, named for former governor [[Charles Hillman Brough]], contained volumes on the subject of Arkansas.
+Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908.
 A substantial three-story annex was added to the library in 1939.
 The Main Library was bulldozed to make way for a former Modernist-style public library that today houses a business data center. The [[Main Library]] of the [[Central Arkansas Library System]] is now located in the [[River Market District]].
 ==References==
 *Arkansas Writers' Project, ''Arkansas: A Guide to the State'' (Works Progress Administration, 1941), 177.
 *Bernie Babcock, ''Yesterday and Today in Arkansas: A Folio of Rare and Interesting Pictures from Mrs. Babcock's Collection for Stories and Legends of Arkansas'' (Jordan & Foster Printing Co., 1917), n.p.

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 [[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg|thumb|300px|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]]
-Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s was [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah M. Rose]] and physician [[W. E. Green]]. The Uriah Rose room contained seven thousand volumes, most of them in French. The Green Room was reserved for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other literary and social club meetings. The Charles H. Brough Room, named for former governor [[Charles Hillman Brough]], contained volumes on the subject of Arkansas.
+Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s was [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah M. Rose]] and physician [[William E. Green]]. The Uriah Rose room contained seven thousand volumes, most of them in French. The Green Room was reserved for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other literary and social club meetings. The Charles H. Brough Room, named for former governor [[Charles Hillman Brough]], contained volumes on the subject of Arkansas.
 A substantial three-story annex was added to the library in 1939.

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−	[[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg\|thumb\|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]]	+	[[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]]
	Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s was [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah M. Rose]] and physician [[W. E. Green]]. The Uriah Rose room contained seven thousand volumes, most of them in French. The Green Room was reserved for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other literary and social club meetings. The Charles H. Brough Room, named for former governor [[Charles Hillman Brough]], contained volumes on the subject of Arkansas.		Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s was [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah M. Rose]] and physician [[W. E. Green]]. The Uriah Rose room contained seven thousand volumes, most of them in French. The Green Room was reserved for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other literary and social club meetings. The Charles H. Brough Room, named for former governor [[Charles Hillman Brough]], contained volumes on the subject of Arkansas.

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 [[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg|thumb|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]]
-Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s weas [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah Rose]] and physician [[W. E. Green]]. The library had a Green Room for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other local literary and social club meetings.
+Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The Greek Revival structure housing the main public library opened in 1908. The head librarian in the 1910s was [[Dorothy D. Lyon]]. Two important private libraries incorporated into the public library collections came from [[Uriah Rose]] and physician [[W. E. Green]]. The library had a Green Room for local Drama League activities as well as meetings of other local literary and social club meetings.
 The Main Library was bulldozed to make way for a former Modernist-style public library that today houses a business data center. The [[Main Library]] of the [[Central Arkansas Library System]] is now located in the [[River Market District]].

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	==References==		==References==

		+	*Bernie Babcock, ''Yesterday and Today in Arkansas: A Folio of Rare and Interesting Pictures from Mrs. Babcock's Collection for Stories and Legends of Arkansas'' (Jordan & Foster Printing Co., 1917), n.p.
	*Kane Webb, "Beauty and Blight: Little Rock's Diametrical Downtown," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' October 7, 2007.		*Kane Webb, "Beauty and Blight: Little Rock's Diametrical Downtown," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' October 7, 2007.