Northside 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 Northside Branch, 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.
The Northside branch was originally known as the Cumminsville Branch. The first branch library by this name existed for about three years from 1879 to 1882. By 1904, the community was pleading for the branch to reopen. A new red brick and limestone building was constructed and opened to the public in April of 1908. The library was designed by the locally prominent firm of Tietig and Lee, who also designed several public schools, two synagogues, and the Cincinnati Tennis Club in town. This branch was extensively renovated in 2000.
References
Armentrout, Mary Ellen. Carnegie Libraries of Ohio
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Northside Branch
Biographical Dictionary of Cincinnati Architects
Carnegie Branches of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Library on flickr