page_title: Carnegie Library at FAMU
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: Carnegie Library at FAMU / External links
caption_attribution_description: Local call number: AD044 Title: Carnegie Library at Florida A&amp;M University: Tallahassee, Florida Date: ca. 1930 General note: The Carnegie Library was built on the campus of Florida A&amp;M University in 1908. It was the first Carnegie Library built at a black land-grant college. In 1976, the Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum was founded at the Carnegie Library. The facility was expanded in 2006 and renamed for United States Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek and Dr. James N. Eaton, founder of the Black Archives. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Physical descrip: 1 slide - col. Series Title: General Collection Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/10567 Visit Florida Memory to see more images of the Carnegie Library at FAMU. To learn more, visit the Black Archivesonline.
context_page_description: The Carnegie Library at FAMU is a historic building on the campus of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Built in 1908, the two-story, white-columned building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. "It was part of a national building program by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The Black Archives was created by the state Legislature in 1971 and opened its doors in 1975." It was one of many public and college libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie, which were named Carnegie Library after him. It is the oldest brick building on the campus and the first Carnegie Library to be built on a black land-grant college campus. Carnegie's library was built at what is today FAMU because the city of Tallahassee refused it, since under Carnegie's rules it would have had to serve black patrons.
  The site of the library is that of the mansion of Florida Governor William Pope Duval, which burned in 1905.
  It was designed by architect William Augustus Edwards and was built in 1908. On November 17, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
context_section_description: Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum - official site at FAMU
  Leon County listings at National Register of Historic Places
  James N. Eaton on BlackPast
  Leon County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
caption: The library during the 1930s.
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