Gloversville Free Library

Gloversville Public Library
Gloversville Free Library, August 2010
Location 58 E. Fulton St., Gloversville, New York
Coordinates 43°3′1″N 74°20′36″W / 43.05028°N 74.34333°W / 43.05028; -74.34333Coordinates: 43°3′1″N 74°20′36″W / 43.05028°N 74.34333°W / 43.05028; -74.34333
Area less than one acre
Built 1904
Architect Ross, Albert Randolph
Architectural style Beaux Arts
NRHP reference # 76001219[1]
Added to NRHP May 24, 1976

Gloversville Public Library is currently located in temporary quarters at 34 West Fulton Street Gloversville in Fulton County, New York while its historic library building located at 58 East Fulton Street is renovated. The building was constructed in 1904, with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is one of 3,000 such libraries constructed between 1885 and 1919, and one of 107 in New York State. Carnegie contributed $50,000 toward the cost to build. It is a two-story Beaux-Arts style building. It consists of four parts: a domed entrance hall containing stairwells, a large central stack space, and two flanking wings that meet the central axis at a 45-degree angle.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

Predecessors of the Gloversville Public Library, incorporated as a school district public library in 2005, include the Gloversville Free Library, an association library from 1888-2005, and the Levi Parsons Library of Gloversville and Kingsborough, a subscription library from 1880-1888.

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Doris Vanderlipp Manley and Kathleen Kosuda (December 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Gloversville Free Library". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying six photos".


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