Information about the
Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall

Institution and Board of Trustees

Library Board Resolutions

Library Service Area

Library and Music Hall Photo Album

History of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall

Library and Music Hall Archives: News and Events

Music Hall History

Performing Arts Groups In-Residence at the Music Hall

Did you know that the library...

• ... has more than 32,000 catalogued items, which makes the Andrew Carnegie Free Library the largest library in the southwestern portion of Allegheny County?

• ... has a discount bookstore with hundreds of items for sale?

• ... houses a Civil War Museum filled with memorabilia?
  • See Museum History
  • See Museum Visiting Hours
  • See the Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves Civil War reenactment group

• ... has a Music Hall that is acoustically superior(patterned after Carnegie Hall in New York City), has an ornate stage(with a stage curtain that pictures Skibo Castle, Andrew Carnegie's Scottish home), and can accomodate 788 people in beautiful mahogany seats?
  • See Stage 62
  • See The Pittsburgh Savoyards *** Archival Information
  • See the Carnegie Performing Arts Center - non-profit dance and drama school with dance studio on the Lower Level of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library buiding. *** Archival Information
  • The Carnegie Civic Chorale
  • The Pittsburgh Music Academy

• ...also has a Lecture Hall, now with 120 seats from the former Grand Theater of Carnegie, Pennsylvania(originally, 140 seats from Grand Theater; 20 seats were donated to the Historical Society of Carnegie, Pennsylvania in the late Spring of 2000), which can be used for lectures, meetings, dances, rehearsals, and other assemblages?

  • Southwest Pittsburgh Vineyard Christian Fellowship church services on Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.

• ... has the Carnegie-area Signal-Item newspaper on microfilm back to 1872 ? Also, microfilm of the former weekly newspaper, the Carnegie Union ?

• ... has storytimes and summer reading programs for children and teens?

  
  

  Funding for the Andrew Carnegie Free Library is provided by:

  * The Borough of Carnegie, through an annual appropriation of the Borough Council;

  * The Allegheny Regional Asset District, from the one percent sales and use tax levied in Allegheny County;

  * The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through an annual appropriation from Commonwealth Libraries;

  * AND the generous donations given by individuals, non-profit organizations, and businesses,
  in Carnegie and the Chartiers Valley.

  Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue Carnegie, Pennsylvania 15106-2699 U.S.A. Telephone: (412) 276-3456 Telefacsimile: (412) 276-9472 Electronic Mail: andrcarn@alphaclp.clpgh.org
  

  
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