Showing posts with label library architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label library architecture. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025

From Sigmund Samuel to the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, 1954–1973

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Over the course of twenty years, in the 1950s and 1960s, libraries at the University of Toronto continued to expand and improve as they beca...
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Sunday, October 08, 2023

William Austin Mahoney: A Prolific Canadian Carnegie Library Architect

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Andrew Carnegie began dispensing grants to Ontario libraries. Many ambitious cities and towns sub...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Ontario Centennial Libraries Program, 1966—1967

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     In 1961 the National Centennial Act established a federal Centennial Commission reporting to Parliament. This Commission intended to ce...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Brantford 1904 Carnegie library

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Brantford Public Library in 1917 Brantford’s classic red brick Beaux-Arts Carnegie Library, constructed between 1902 and 1904, was located ...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Brockville 1904 Carnegie library

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At the turn of the 20th century, library grants from the foundation Andrew Carnegie had created became readily available for Canadian munici...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

PHOTO ESSAY ON ONTARIO'S EDWARDIAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES (1989)

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An illustrated address I originally gave at the Canadian Library Association library history interest group session at Edmonton in June 1...