{"id":8328,"date":"2014-10-28T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:02","slug":"how-andrew-carnegie-built-the-architecture-of-american-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/28\/how-andrew-carnegie-built-the-architecture-of-american-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Andrew Carnegie Built the Architecture of American Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2014\/10\/how-andrew-carnegie-built-the-architecture-of-american-literacy\/381953\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lead_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Oxygen, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;letter-spacing: 0.200000002980232px;line-height: 25.9999675750732px\">&#8220;Between 1893 and 1919\u00e2\u20ac\u201da three-decade run that librarians refer to as the Golden Age of the American public library system\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<strong>Carnegie paid to build 1,689 libraries in the U.S.<\/strong> These seeded the DNA for nearly every American library built before the end of World War II. That may explain in part why there is no central accounting for Carnegie&#8217;s libraries, which were built without any oversight from a formal program or foundation: <strong>Even libraries that aren&#8217;t historical Carnegie libraries share their aesthetic philosophy<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2014\/10\/how-andrew-carnegie-built-the-architecture-of-american-literacy\/381953\/\">How Andrew Carnegie Built the Architecture of American Literacy &#8211; CityLab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1893 and 1919, Andrew Carnegie paid to build 1,689 libraries in the U.S. This building bonanza had a direct impact on the aesthetic philosophies of libraries across the US.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[981,980,150],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-architecture","tag-carnegie","tag-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}