List of Carnegie libraries in South Carolina

The following list of Carnegie libraries in South Carolina provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in South Carolina, where 14 public libraries were built from 14 grants (totaling $124,700) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1903 to 1916. In addition, academic libraries were built at 4 institutions (totaling $65,000).

Key

  Building still operating as a library
  Building standing, but now serving another purpose
  Building no longer standing
  Building listed on the National Register of Historic Places
  Building contributes to a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places

Public libraries

	Library	City or town	Image	Date granted [1]	Grant amount [1]	Location	Notes
1	Anderson	Anderson		Mar 14, 1905	$18,700	405 N. Main St.	Open 1908–1971, now an arts center
2	Beaufort	Beaufort		Sep 25, 1914	$7,500	701 Craven St.	Open 1918–1964
3	Camden	Camden		Nov 17, 1914	$5,000	1314 Broad St.	Open 1916–1973, now a museum
4	Charleston	Charleston		Feb 26, 1914	$5,000	164 King St.	Not a public library
5	Darlington	Darlington		May 15, 1916	$10,000	127 N. Main St.	Open 1920–1988
6	Gaffney	Gaffney		Apr 2, 1913	$7,500	210 N. Limestone St.	Open 1914–1972, now county offices
7	Greenwood	Greenwood		May 15, 1916	$12,500		Open 1917–1958, demolished in the 1960s
8	Honea Path	Honea Path		Mar 7, 1907	$5,000	318 N. Shirley Ave.	Opened 1908
9	Kingstree	Kingstree		Apr 19, 1915	$6,000	135 Hampton Ave.	Open 1917–2001, now a museum
10	Latta	Latta		Apr 3, 1912	$5,000	101 N. Marion St.	Opened 1914
11	Marion	Marion		Nov 16, 1904	$7,500	101 E. Court St.	Opened 1906
12	Spartanburg	Spartanburg		Jun 23, 1903	$15,000		Opened 1906, demolished c.1956
13	Sumter	Sumter		Sep 29, 1915	$10,000	219 W. Liberty St.	Open 1917–1968, now the county genealogical society
14	Union	Union		Jan 13, 1903	$10,000	300 E. South St.	Opened 1905

Academic libraries

	Institution	Locality	Image	Date granted [2]	Grant amount [2]	Location	Notes
1	Benedict College	Columbia		Mar 15, 1904	$6,000		Replaced by Starks Center in 1937
2	Converse College	Spartanburg		Mar 17, 1904	$10,000	580 E. Main St.	Open 1905–1951, now offices
3	Furman University	Greenville		Mar 15, 1905	$19,000		Open 1906, demolished 1961 after the university moved
4	Winthrop College	Rock Hill		Feb 27, 1904	$30,000	1898 Alumni Dr.	Open 1905–1961, now the Rutledge Building, houses art classes and galleries

Notes

1. At various times, Bobinski and Jones disagree on these numbers. In these cases, Jones' numbers have been used due to both a more recent publication date and a more detailed gazetteer of branch libraries, which are often where the discrepancies occur.
2. Miller, pp. 38–40

References

• Anderson, Florence (1963). Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC   1282382.
• Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN   0-8389-0022-4.
• Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   0-471-14422-3.
• Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC   2603611.

Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.