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The Mount Washington Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh located at 315 Grandview Avenue in the
Mount Washington Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River. The mountain is notorious for its erratic weather. On the afternoon of April 12, 1934 ...
neighborhood of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...
, was built in 1900. It was designed by the architectural firm
Alden & Harlow Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (later Alden & Harlow), of Boston, Massachusetts, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,Margaret Henderson Floyd, ''Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburg ...
, and it was added to the
List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
on July 28, 2004 and the
List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) Historic Landmark plaque program was begun in 1968 in order to identify architecturally significant structures as well as significant pieces of Pittsburgh's local heritage throughout Allegheny Co ...
in 1989. The branch re-opened in 2021 following extensive renovations and expansion.


Gallery

File:DowntownFromMtWashingtonBranch.jpg, A view of Downtown Pittsburgh from the patio of the Mount Washington branch File:Entrancemtwashingtonbranchpittsburgh.jpg, Arches above entrance of the Mount Washington branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh File:Programmingmtwashingtonbranchpittsburgh.jpg, Children's programming kits being displayed and offered on the sidewalk in front of the Mt. Washington branch


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