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Added to NRHP. April 3, 1980. The Carnegie Public Library at Huntington, West Virginia, formerly also known as the Cabell County Public Library, is a historic library building located on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street. It was the first public library in the county. [2] It served the community as a library until 1980, when ...
The new library is 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2) in a three-story building located on a 15-acre (6.1 ha) plot of land across the street from Mount Vernon's main entrance. The general library contains thousands of books, newspapers, pamphlets, microforms, electronic resources, maps, photographs, and periodicals belonging to Washington. [3]
August 17, 2005. Designated VLR. June 1, 2005 [2] The first Newport News Public Library, renamed West Avenue Library, now NNPLS Technical Services, in the Newport News Public Library System, was opened on October 14, 1929 at the corner of West Avenue and 30th Street in the City of Newport News, Virginia. This building was the first to be built ...
Handley Library is a historic library building located at 100 West Piccadilly Street in Winchester, Virginia, United States. Completed in 1913, construction of the Beaux-Arts style building was funded by a wealthy Pennsylvania businessman. The building serves as the main branch for Winchester's library system, the Handley Regional Library System.
The West Virginia and Regional History Center, the world's largest collection of West Virginia-related research material, is in the Wise Library on the Downtown Campus. The collection includes over 4.5 million manuscript documents, 30,000 books, 15,000 pamphlets, 1,200 newspapers , 100,000 photographs and prints, 5,000 maps, and 25,000 ...
Shirlington Circle. Shirlington Circle or Shirlington Rotary ( 38°50′26″N 77°5′6″W) is a roundabout interchange connecting I-395 (Shirley Highway) with several surface roads in Arlington County and Alexandria. Although the circle is named after Shirlington, roughly half of it is located in Alexandria.
725 Green St. 39°15′57″N 81°33′22″W. / 39.265886°N 81.556213°W / 39.265886; -81.556213 ( Parkersburg Public Library) Opened on October 5, 1905, this library closed in 1976 when a new library was built. It later housed Trans-Allegheny Books, the largest used bookstore in West Virginia. The bookstore closed in 2010.
Helvetia is a census-designated place (CDP) in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 59. [3] According to the 2020 census, its population was 38. [4] The isolated community was settled by Swiss starting in 1869, and is known today for maintaining Swiss traditions, food, and folkways.
Institute is an unincorporated community on the Kanawha River in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Interstate 64 and West Virginia Route 25 pass by the community, which has grown to intermingle with nearby Dunbar. As of 2018, the community had a population of 1,489, 54% of whom were African American.
The library system is within Region 2 of the Virginia Library Association (VLA). Service area [ edit ] According to the FY 2014 Institute of Museum and Library Services Data Catalog, the Library System has a service area population of 86,403 with 1 central library in Martinsville, Virginia and 4 branch libraries in Bassett , Collinsville ...