From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2016.13.121
Front view of the public library at Rockland, Maine. Image scanned backwards. The granite building was constructed in 1904 and designed by Architect William Clough. It is a Carnegie library: one of the scores of elegant public library buildings constructed with seed funds from the Pittsburgh steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie. His $20,000 offer in 1903 came with the proviso that the City of Rockland come up with a site. Community fundraising and a donation from Emily Hitchcock and William Case funded the purchase of the lot, which offered a far more spacious setting than the existing smaller library had on Main Street.
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LB2016.13.121
