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📚 Carnegie Library

A stone library that opened in 1906.

Andrew Carnegie offered $10,000 for a Howell library in 1902, and later added $5,000.

The stone library opened on November 19, 1906.

Its first architect, E. E. Myers, also designed the Michigan State Capitol.

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When did the stone library open?

Source for grown-ups

Howell Carnegie Library Archives: Stone Building

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https://archives.howelllibrary.org/exhibits/show/library-history/stone-building
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