Corning Carnegie Library - Corning, CA
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saopaulo1
N 39° 55.747 W 122° 10.861
10S E 569980 N 4420211
A former Carnegie Library in Corning, CA.
Waymark Code: WM9EV5
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/10/2010
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"The Corning library benefited from another East Coast philanthropist in addition to Andrew Carnegie: Sarah Bennett of Nyack, NY, a financial supporter of the Maywood Colony. Colony promoters had aggressively sold orchard plots to settlers from the east and Corning soon accommodated its own blend of establishment eastern and newer western cultures. In 1898 Maywood Colony women formed a Women's Club, received book donations from Colony investors in the East, and in 1903 opened a library to the public which occupied a series of temporary quarters. Carnegie funding was sought and $10,000 was granted in 1913. Clarence Stiles designed the building; Yanish, Briggs and Walters were the builders. Meanwhile, Maywood Colony investor Sarah Bennett had died in 1900 but not until her estate was settled in 1921 did Corning learn that she had left $25,000 for a building and other library needs. The interest has since enhanced library operations, and Corning negotiated control of its trust funds when
it joined the Tehama County library system. After a new library was constructed, the Carnegie building was sold and has since housed a variety of private enterprises."
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