Braddock Carnegie Library
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The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is the first Carnegie Library in the United States. As such, the library was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012, following its listing
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Logo of Carnegie One
Neo-medieval cast iron newel posts flank the staircase of the original 1889 section of the building.
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Longfellow, Alden & Harlow
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Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, of Boston, Massachusetts, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the architectural firm of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr., Frank Ellis Alden, and Alfred Branch Harlow. The f
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…by Carnegie in person at ceremonies on March 30, 1889. Circulation of books also began that month. An addition in more Richardson Romanesque style by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (successors to HH Richardson) followed in 1893. (Another Halsey Wood design, Yaddo, presently an artists retreat/center in Saratoga Springs NY, is now…
Alden and Harlow as depicted in Palmer's Pictorial Pittsburgh, 1905
Music Building at the University of Pittsburgh, built in 1884.
The Arnold Arboretum headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, the Hunnewell Building named after Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow in 1892 and completed in 1903.
Sunnyledge, built in 1886, in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.