List of Carnegie libraries in Puerto Rico
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The following list of Carnegie libraries in Puerto Rico provides detailed information on the United States Carnegie library in Puerto Rico, where 1 library was built from 1 grant (totaling $100,000) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1916.
Carnegie libraries
| Library | City or town |
Image | Date granted[1] |
Grant amount[1] |
Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Juan | San Juan | Oct 4, 1901 | $100,000 | 7 Ave Juan Ponce De León Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Opened July 27, 1915, this library in the Puerto Rico was the first building to be built there for the specific purpose of a public library. In 1965, it was closed due to disrepair. It reopened in 1969. September 18, 1989, Hurricane Hugo severely damaged the library, resulting in $975,000 worth of books to be lost. It did not reopen again until 1995[2] |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 At various times, Bobinski and Jones disagree on these numbers. In these cases, Jones' numbers have been used due to both a more recent publication date and a more detailed gazetteer of branch libraries, which are often where the discrepancies occur.
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References
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Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references (usually Jones) without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.
