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Johnstown Public Library, 304 Washington Street, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA
Summary
Significance: The library owes its original existence and reconstruction to the steel industry. In 1877, the Cambria Iron Company gave the Washington Street site to the Cambria Library Association, and two years later the original library was built. Greatly damaged in the 1889 flood, the library was rebuilt with an endowment from Andrew Carnegie; the Johnstown library was one of the steel magnate's earliest American philanthropic endeavors.
Survey number: HABS PA-5386
Building/structure dates: 1890- 1892 Initial Construction
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Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Cambria Iron Company
Carnegie, Andrew
Hutton, Addison
Cambria Library Association
Johnstown Flood Museum
Hoover, Hughes & Company
Morgan, Joseph
Thackery, George E
Wallace, Kim E, project manager
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Deines, Ann, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Hartman, Terri, historian
Hoagland, Alison K, historian
Location
Walnut Grove (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.), 40.32806, -78.92063
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
