The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is situated in the Allegheny Center neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was commissioned in 1886, the first Carnegie library to be commissioned in the U
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
Reading Room, ca. 1900
Women's Reading Room, ca. 1900
Library entrance
John L. Smithmeyer
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John L. Smithmeyer was an American architect.
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
…library to be commissioned in the United States. Donated to the public by entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, it was built from 1886 to 1890 on a design by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. The library and musical conservatory was built of red and grey granite from Maine. The contractor was Vinalhaven, Maine's Bodwell…
John L. Smithmeyer