List of Carnegie libraries in the Caribbean
This is a list of Carnegie libraries in the Caribbean. Although most of Carnegie's philanthropic efforts were aimed at North America and Europe, a handful of libraries are scattered in other English-speaking areas of the world.
There are six Carnegie libraries in the Caribbean region spanning six countries.
Community | Country | Image | Date granted[1][2] |
Grant amount[1][3] |
Location | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bridgetown, (St. Michael) |
Barbados | Aug 22, 1903 | $23,330 | Coleridge St. | Inscribed as part of UNESCO's historic buildings in Bridgetown and Saint Ann's Garrison area. | |
2 | Castries | Saint Lucia | May 15, 1916 | $10,400 | |||
3 | Georgetown | Guyana | Oct 15, 1906 | $34,100 | |||
4 | Kingstown | Saint Vincent | Oct 15, 1906 | $9,825 | |||
5 | Roseau | Dominica | Mar 14, 1905 | $7,500 | |||
6 | San Fernando | Trinidad | Sep 25, 1914 | $12,200 | |||
Total | — | — | — | — | $97,355 | — | — |
Notes
- Anderson, pp. 94–98.
- Miller, pp. 21–40.
- The amounts listed here were mostly granted in British pounds. In general the conversion rate used by the Carnegie Corporation was £1 = $5.
References
- Anderson, Florence (1963). Carnegie Corporation Library Program, 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 525904.
- Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611.
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