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The Carnegie Library is located on Church Street at the corner of Valley Road in the township of Montclair in
Essex County, New Jersey Essex County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is one of the centrally located counties in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's second-most populous county,< ...
, United States. The building was built in 1904 and was added to the
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on July 1, 1988, for its significance in architecture. With It was listed in the Public Buildings section of the Historic Resources of Montclair
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(MPS). The library was designed by California architect John G. Howard with an eclectic mix of
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and
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architectural styles. The building is now used by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New Jersey. Latitude ...
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List of Carnegie libraries in New Jersey The following list of Carnegie libraries in New Jersey provides information on United States Carnegie libraries in New Jersey, where 36 libraries were built from grants totaling $1,066,553 awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1900 ...
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East Orange Public Library The East Orange Public Library is the free public library of East Orange East Orange is a City (New Jersey), city in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's popul ...


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