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| Location | St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 27°46′29″N 82°38′26″W / 27.77472°N 82.64056°W |
| Architectural style | Beaux-arts |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001259[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 13, 1986 |
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The Mirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library built in 1915 in Beaux-Arts style. It was one of ten Florida Carnegie libraries to receive grants awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1917.[2] Steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie provided funding for more than 3,000 Carnegie libraries in the United States, Canada, and Europe.[3] The library is significant to the city's history as the first permanent home of the public library system and embodies the transformation of the city in the second decade of the twentieth century from a pioneer village to a city with viable cultural institutions.[4]
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#86001259)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471144223.
- ^ Bobinski, George (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4.
- ^ St. Petersburg. "Mirror Lake Library". Retrieved 14 March 2016.