Hyde Park Branch, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio
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With a Carnegie grant of $280,000, the Cincinnati Public Library built 9 neighborhood branches. Seven of them, including Hyde Park, are still in use today.
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Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2009
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Although earlier subscription services existed, the
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County considers March 14, 1853 as their official birthday, and recently celebrated their sesquicentennial. Two downtown buildings have served as the main library, and the system today has 41 branch libraries. Carnegie funds financed 9 branches built between 1905 and 1915. Today, seven of the nine are still in use. The former Columbia-Tusculum branch is now in use as a community center, and the former West End branch was demolished in 1947.
Edward Tilton, the architect who designed the Immigration Station at Ellis Island as well as several Ohio Carnegie Libraries, was the designer of the Hyde Park branch library. Built in 1912, the building had an arched entryway with a decorated pediment and red tile roof. However, a 1970s renovation modernized the exterior, leaving a front porch with an awning supported by square, olive green columns and what appear to be asphalt shingles. An original photo bears no resemblance to the post-renovation library.
References
Armentrout, Mary Ellen. Carnegie Libraries of Ohio
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Hyde Park Branch
Carnegie Branches of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Library on flickr