Hosmer Community Library
Hosmer Library, originally known as the Thirty-Sixth Street Branch Library, is a branch library of the Hennepin County Library system serving the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was named the Hosmer Library in honor of James Kendall Hosmer and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. History It was built in 1916 during a period of rapid immigration into Minneapolis. At the time it was built, the library was in a sparsely developed Scandinavian neighborhood and one block away from the since-demolished Central High School. The library was built under the leadership of librarian Gratia Countryman and financed with support from the Carnegie Corporation. The building is in the Collegiate Gothic style, with polygonal towers on either side of the main entrance, a crenellated parapet, and terra cotta trim. Hosmer Library was Minneapolis' fourth and final Carnegie branch. Following Gratia Countryman's research-based application ...
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins in timber and as the flour milling capital of the world. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Prior to European settlement, the site of Minneapolis was inhabited by Dakota people. The settlement was founded along Saint Anthony Falls on a section of land north of Fort Snelling; its growth is attributed to its proximity to the fort and the falls providing power for industrial activity. , the city has an estimated 425,336 inhabitants. It is the most populous city in the state and the 46th-most-populous city in the United States. Minneapolis, Saint Paul and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities. Minneapolis has one of the most extensive public par ...
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List Of Carnegie Libraries In Minnesota
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Minnesota provides detailed information on Carnegie libraries in Minnesota, United States, where 65 public libraries were built from 57Jones erroneously reports this number as 64, while Bobinski reports the number of grants at 58. However, Jones lists 65 public libraries in his gazetteer, and Anderson lists 57 grants. grants (totaling $969,375) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1918. In addition, Hamline University in Saint Paul was awarded a $30,000 grant on March 12, 1906, to construct an academic library. In Minnesota grants were given between 1899 and 1918. Of Minnesota's 66 original Carnegie libraries, 48 are still standing. 25 continue to house public libraries while others have been adapted into art centers or office space. Of the 18 lost libraries, one burned down and the rest were demolished, often because they were unworkably deficient in handicap accessibility. 38 of the surviving libraries are ...
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Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Public Library (MPL) was a library system that served the residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. It was founded in 1885 with the establishment of the Minneapolis Library Board by an amendment to the Minneapolis City Charter. Lumber baron and philanthropist T. B. Walker and other city leaders such as Thomas Lowry were members of the first library board. In 2008, after some financial difficulties, the library was merged into the Hennepin County Library system. At the time of its merger, the library included Central Library in downtown Minneapolis and fourteen branch libraries. Its collection numbered about 3.1 million items with about 2.2 million of these housed in the central library. Central Library The predecessor of Minneapolis's public library was a private library called the Minneapolis Athenæum. It was organized by Minneapolis businessmen in 1859 as a subscription library,
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Library Buildings Completed In 1916
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include printed materials and other physical resources in many formats such as DVD, CD and cassette as well as access to information, music or other content held on bibliographic databases. A library, which may vary widely in size, may be organized for use and maintained by a public body such as a government; an institution such as a school or museum; a corporation; or a private individual. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are trained and experts at finding, selecting, circulating and organizing information and at interpreting information needs, navigating and analyzing very large amounts of information with a variety of resources. Li ...
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Libraries On The National Register Of Historic Places In Minnesota
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include printed materials and other physical resources in many formats such as DVD, CD and cassette as well as access to information, music or other content held on bibliographic databases. A library, which may vary widely in size, may be organized for use and maintained by a public body such as a government; an institution such as a school or museum; a corporation; or a private individual. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are trained and experts at finding, selecting, circulating and organizing information and at interpreting information needs, navigating and analyzing very large amounts of information with a variety of resources. Li ...
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Carnegie Libraries In Minnesota
Carnegie may refer to: People * Carnegie (surname), including a list of people with the name * Clan Carnegie, a lowland Scottish clan Institutions Named for Andrew Carnegie *Carnegie Building (Troy, New York), on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Carnegie College, in Dunfermline, Scotland, a former further education college * Carnegie Community Centre, in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia *Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs * Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a global think tank with headquarters in Washington, DC, and four other centers, including: **Carnegie Middle East Center, in Beirut **Carnegie Europe, in Brussels **Carnegie Moscow Center * Carnegie Foundation (other), any of several foundations * Carnegie Hall, a concert hall in New York City * Carnegie Hall, Inc., a regional cultural center in Lewisburg, West Virginia *Carnegie Hero Fund *Carnegie Institution for Science, also called Carnegie Institution of Washingto ...
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STEAM Fields
STEAM fields are the areas of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. STEAM is designed to integrate STEM subjects with arts subjects into various relevant education disciplines. These programs aim to teach students innovation, to think critically and use engineering or technology in imaginative designs or creative approaches to real-world problems while building on students' mathematics and science base. STEAM programs add arts to STEM curriculum by drawing on reasoning and design principles, and encouraging creative solutions. STEAM in children's media * ''Sesame Street''s 43rd season continues to focus on STEM but finds ways to integrate art. They state: "This helps make learning STEM concepts relevant and enticing to young children by highlighting how artists use STEM knowledge to enhance their art or solve problems. It also provides context for the importance of STEM knowledge in careers in the arts (e.g. musician, painter, sculptor and dancer)." * MG ...
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Hosmer Library, 1995
Hosmer may refer to: Places *Hosmer, South Dakota, United States *Hosmer's Grove, Maui, Hawaii, United States *Mount Hosmer (other) *Hosmer, British Columbia, Canada Other uses *Hosmer (surname) *Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, a museum in Orange County, Florida *Hosmer Mountain Soda, a soft-drink producer based in Connecticut *Hosmer Angel "A Case of Identity" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. It first appeared in '' The Strand Magazine'' in September 1891. Plot summa ...

Hosmer Library, 1960
Hosmer may refer to: Places *Hosmer, South Dakota, United States *Hosmer's Grove, Maui, Hawaii, United States *Mount Hosmer (other) *Hosmer, British Columbia, Canada Other uses *Hosmer (surname) *Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, a museum in Orange County, Florida *Hosmer Mountain Soda, a soft-drink producer based in Connecticut *Hosmer Angel "A Case of Identity" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. It first appeared in '' The Strand Magazine'' in September 1891. Plot summa ...

Hosmer Library Interior, 1956
Hosmer may refer to: Places *Hosmer, South Dakota, United States *Hosmer's Grove, Maui, Hawaii, United States *Mount Hosmer (other) *Hosmer, British Columbia, Canada Other uses *Hosmer (surname) *Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, a museum in Orange County, Florida *Hosmer Mountain Soda, a soft-drink producer based in Connecticut *Hosmer Angel "A Case of Identity" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. It first appeared in '' The Strand Magazine'' in September 1891. Plot summa ...

Hosmer Library Exterior, 1954
Hosmer may refer to: Places *Hosmer, South Dakota, United States *Hosmer's Grove, Maui, Hawaii, United States *Mount Hosmer (other) *Hosmer, British Columbia, Canada Other uses *Hosmer (surname) *Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, a museum in Orange County, Florida *Hosmer Mountain Soda, a soft-drink producer based in Connecticut *Hosmer Angel "A Case of Identity" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. It first appeared in '' The Strand Magazine'' in September 1891. Plot summa ...

Hosmer Children's Librarian Betty Welles
Hosmer may refer to: Places *Hosmer, South Dakota, United States *Hosmer's Grove, Maui, Hawaii, United States *Mount Hosmer (other) *Hosmer, British Columbia, Canada Other uses *Hosmer (surname) *Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, a museum in Orange County, Florida *Hosmer Mountain Soda, a soft-drink producer based in Connecticut *Hosmer Angel "A Case of Identity" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. It first appeared in '' The Strand Magazine'' in September 1891. Plot summa ...