Carnegie Library of Homestead

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Carnegie Library of Homestead was one of the first libraries endowed and operated by Andrew Carnegie’s Carnegie Steel Company. Others were Braddock in 1889 (the first), Allegheny in 1890 (Pittsburgh’s North Side), Homestead in 1898, Carnegie in 1901, and Duquesne in 1904 (Duquesne was razed in 1968). The Carnegie Library of Homestead is enclosed in one building and includes, from left to right, a Music Hall, Library, and an Athletic Club. The Music Hall is acoustically one of the best in the world. The Athletic Club includes an indoor track, basketball court, and a heated swimming pool. Designed in the French Renaissance style, it sits on a hillside overlooking the former location of Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Works along the Monongahela River, the site of the Great Homestead Strike of 1892. The Homestead Steel Works was developed into the Waterfront Shopping Center in 2004. Once the industrial capitol of the world, now home to The Gap clothing store. The Carnegie Library of Homestead was dedicated by Mr. Carnegie on November 5, 1898. It is located at 510 Tenth Avenue in Munhall, PA.