The Carnegie Library In Covington

Part of the fun of having a softball tournament in Covington, Indiana was knowing that we had a Carnegie Library just down the road. I have been having lots of fun finding these libraries and photographing them. This one was in a very good spot to make a photo of just it with the landscaping around it. I have a list of these libraries in my notepad now, and part of the fun of traveling will be checking that list to see if the towns I am going through has one of these libraries.

Carnegie Library Week

Over the years I have often photographed libraries without knowing why. Certain libraries just looked amazing in small towns so I made a photo of them. This year I found the thread that binds them together. They were all Carnegie Libraries. From about a fifty year span around the turn of the 20th century about 2,500 libraries were built with funding from Andrew Carnegie. At one point about 80% of the libraries in the United States were built in part with funds from Andrew Carnegie. At first in the United States he just built around his home of Pittsburgh, but over the years he grew his reach to many across the entire United States. When it was all said and done almost 1,700 libraries were built here in America thanks to Andrew Carnegie. He really left his mark on many small towns in the United States. This week I am going to show off five of these libraries that I have visited in the last couple of weeks.