The Carnegie Education Pavilion, more often known as the Carnegie Monument, is a marble
Beaux-Arts monument located in
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
,
Georgia, United States. The pavilion was constructed in 1996 from the exterior facade of the
Carnegie Library, named after
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...
. The monument pays homage to the legacy of Carnegie by serving as a monument to
higher education in Atlanta, with the seals of nine local area colleges and universities embedded in the floor of the monument. The monument was commissioned in 1996 by the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta and designed by
Henri Jova
Henri Vatable Jova (1919-2014) was an American architect and preservationist. With Stanley Daniels and John Busby, he founded Jova/Daniels/Busby, a multidisciplinary design firm based in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. State), Georgia, which designed severa ...
. The pavilion is located in Downtown's
Hardy Ivy Park
Hardy Ivy Park is a pocket park in Downtown Atlanta, downtown Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States.
History
The namesake for the park is Hardy Ivy, who is generally considered the first person of European descent to settle ...
, at the curve in
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street is one of several major streets running through the city of Atlanta. Beginning at Five Points (Atlanta), Five Points in downtown Atlanta, it runs North through Midtown Atlanta, Midtown; a few blocks after entering into Buckhead ...
where it diverges with West Peachtree Street. The monument's inscription reads: "The Advancement of Learning." It also features the inscriptions of the names of three famous Western poets "
Dante
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...
", "
Milton
Milton may refer to:
Names
* Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname)
** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
* Milton (given name)
** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...
", and "Asop", in addition to the library's namesake, "Carnegie".
The Carnegie Library
From 1899 to 1901, Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, donated $145,000 to construct, furnish, and supply a new public library in Atlanta. A site was chosen at 126 Carnegie Way in downtown Atlanta. The library, built by New York architects
Ackerman and Ross, opened in 1902. It was renovated in 1950 and 1966, and remained the central library of
the system until it was demolished in 1977 in order to make way for the controversial
Marcel Breuer-designed
Central Library. The architectural bays of the original structure were preserved and used to create the pavilion twenty years after the building's demolition.
Gallery
File:Carnegie Library Atlanta.jpg, The former Carnegie Library, now destroyed
File:Atlanta - generic 06.JPG, The Carnegie Monument in 2010
References
External links
The Atlanta Public Arts Legacy Fund
{{Atlanta landmarks
Landmarks in Atlanta