Muhlenberg Branch, New York Public Library
Carrere & Hastings built the Humanities and Social Sciences Library and the Muhlenberg Branch of the New York Public Library. The main library of NYPL and the Muhlenberg Branch were built for radically different purposes.
The funds obtained from Andrew Carnegie were used to create this small, modest library in the neo-Renaissance design as a neighborhood library. The façade is the only ornate part of the building. One large arch for the doorway and two smaller arched windows. The library, being of rectangular shape, is three floors, with the main reading room and stacks on the first floor, the children’s library on the second, and the third housing a community room and staff offices.
In 1999, R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband made major renovations to the building.