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	Date granted^[1]	Grant amount^[1]	Location	Notes
1	Anderson	Anderson	000000001905-03-14-0000Mar 14, 1905	$18,700	405 N. Main St.	Open 1908–1971, now an arts center
2	Beaufort	Beaufort	000000001914-09-25-0000Sep 25, 1914	$7,500	701 Craven St.	Open 1918–1964
3	Camden	Camden	000000001914-11-17-0000Nov 17, 1914	$5,000	1314 Broad St.	Open 1916–1973, now a museum
4	Charleston	Charleston	000000001914-02-26-0000Feb 26, 1914	$5,000	164 King St.	Not a public library
5	Darlington	Darlington	000000001916-05-15-0000May 15, 1916	$10,000	127 N. Main St.	Open 1920–1988
6	Gaffney	Gaffney	000000001913-04-02-0000Apr 2, 1913	$7,500	210 N. Limestone St.	Open 1914–1972, now county offices
7	Greenwood	Greenwood	000000001916-05-15-0000May 15, 1916	$12,500		Open 1917–1958, demolished in the 1960s
8	Honea Path	Honea Path	000000001907-03-07-0000Mar 7, 1907	$5,000	318 N. Shirley Ave.	Opened 1908
9	Kingstree	Kingstree	000000001915-04-19-0000Apr 19, 1915	$6,000	135 Hampton Ave.	Open 1917–2001, now a museum
10	Latta	Latta	000000001912-04-03-0000Apr 3, 1912	$5,000	101 N. Marion St.	Opened 1914
11	Marion	Marion	000000001904-11-16-0000Nov 16, 1904	$7,500	101 E. Court St.	Opened 1905
12	Spartanburg	Spartanburg	000000001903-06-23-0000Jun 23, 1903	$15,000		Opened 1906, demolished c.1956
13	Sumter	Sumter	000000001915-09-29-0000Sep 29, 1915	$10,000	219 W. Liberty St.	Open 1917–1968, now the county genealogical society
14	Union	Union	000000001903-01-13-0000Jan 13, 1903	$10,000	300 E. South St.	Opened 1905

Academic libraries

	Institution	Locality	Date granted^[2]	Grant amount^[2]	Location	Notes
1	Benedict College	Columbia	000000001904-03-15-0000Mar 15, 1904	$6,000		Replaced by Starks Center in 1937
2	Converse College	Spartanburg	000000001904-03-17-0000Mar 17, 1904	$10,000	580 E. Main St.	Open 1905–1951, now offices
3	Furman University	Greenville	000000001905-03-15-0000Mar 15, 1905	$19,000		Open 1906, demolished 1961 after the university moved
4	Winthrop College	Rock Hill	000000001904-02-27-0000Feb 27, 1904	$30,000	1898 Alumni Dr.	Open 1905–1961, now the Rutledge Building, houses art classes and galleries

Notes

1 2 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.
1 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.

U.S. Carnegie libraries by state

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Federal district	District of Columbia

Other	Puerto Rico

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