Edgewater Public Library

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| name = Edgewater Public Library

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| image = Edgewater Library.JPG

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| location = 49 Hudson Avenue Edgewater, New Jersey

| coordinates = {{coord|40|49|47|N|73|58|27|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA New Jersey Bergen County

| built = 1915

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| architecture = Colonial Revival

| added = December 23, 2009

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| refnum = 09001154

| designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP

| designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_date = January 5, 2009

| designated_other1_number = 4738[https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/BERGEN.pdf New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Bergen County], New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office, updated March 30, 2023. Accessed April 30, 2023.

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The Edgewater Public Library is located at 48 Hudson Avenue in Edgewater, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Serving a population of 7,677, the library in 2011 included a collection of 20,402 volumes. As a member of the Bergen County Cooperative Library System, a consortium of municipal libraries in the northeastern New Jersey counties of Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, and Essex, it has a circulation of 52,627 items per year.{{Cite web | title = Edgewater Free Public Library | publisher = librarytechnology.org | date = 2011 | url = http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=10652 | accessdate = 2011-09-26}}

The building is one of New Jersey's 36 Carnegie libraries, constructed with a grant of $15,000 made March 16, 1915 by the Carnegie Corporation and opened in 1916.{{cite book|last=Bobinski|first=George S.|title=Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development|publisher=American Library Association|location=Chicago|date=1969|isbn=0-8389-0022-4|ref=Bobinski}}*{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Theodore|title=Carnegie Libraries Across America|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=New York|date=1997|isbn=0-471-14422-3|ref=Jones}} Engraved about its entrance is Edgewater Free Library. In 2009, the library was listed on the state and national registers of historic places.