Carnegie Library at FAMU

{{Short description|Historic place in Florida, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

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| name = Carnegie Library

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| image = CarnegieLibraryTLH.JPG

| caption = FAMU's Carnegie Library

| location = Tallahassee, Florida

| coordinates = {{coord|30|25|39|N|84|17|11|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Florida#USA

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| built = 1908

| architect = William Augustus Edwards

| architecture = Classical Revival

| added = 17 November 1978

| refnum = 78000949

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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 established by the Florida Legislature in 1971 and opened in 1975.{{Cite news|title=Making a home for history FAMU's black archives is undergoing an extensive restoration project|last=Miller |first=Maurita |date=February 8, 1999 |work=Tallahassee Democrat |page=C1|language=en|id = {{ProQuest|1009037110}}}} 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.{{citation

|page=282

|title=Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State

|author=Federal Writers Project

|place=New York

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|date=1939}}{{Cite web|url=http://famu.edu/index.cfm?MEBA|title=Meek Eaton Black Archives- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University2019|website=famu.edu|access-date=2019-03-26}}

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 (see History of Tallahassee, Florida#Black history). At the time, FAMU's predecessor, the State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students, was in need of a new library. Its library had been located in the mansion of Florida Governor William Pope Duval, which burned in 1905. The Carnegie Library was built on the site of that mansion.

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.