Carnegie Library

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.

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

• 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.