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Make a Splash @ the Library

and meet our new fish friends

Summer Reading Closing Party is August 12

Join us for our summer reading farewell. Prizes will be awarded to our fabulous summer reading participants and the Chinese Auction prize winners will be drawn. Join us for the celebration!

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Saturday Summer Hours June 19 through August 28

11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Looking for something new? Check out the new titles added to our collection.

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Visit the painstakingly restored Capt. Thomas Espy Post No. 153

of the Grand Army of the Republic

Open Saturdays, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

National Treasure restored!

 

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is to inform, inspire and enrich its diverse communities through library and information services, performing arts and other cultural, educational and community activities.

 

The 1901 Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall (ACFL&MH) sits graciously on a hill above Carnegie’s Main Street. The facility houses a fine regional library, an acoustically excellent music hall, studios, a lovely reception hall, and—a true national treasure—its Civil War Room.   The Thomas Espy Post of the Grand Army of the Republic is one of the seven or eight most intact G.A.R. post in the country.

The historic landmark ACFL&MH is one of only four libraries in the United States endowed by famed industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie.  (Braddock, Homestead and Duquesne – the last, sadly demolished – where Carnegie had steel mills, are the others.)  In the early 1890s, the leaders of what were then Chartiers and Mansfield approached Mr. Carnegie and offered to merge into a new town in return for the philanthropist's building a library.  The borough of Carnegie incorporated in 1894. Ground was broken for the Library in 1899.  The ACFL&MH opened its doors in May 1901 and has been proudly serving its community ever since.