Carnegie Library at FAMU, Carnegie Library and African-American museum in Tallahassee, United States.
Carnegie Library at FAMU is a two-story red-brick building with white columns on the Florida A&M University campus in Tallahassee, designed by architect William Augustus Edwards and completed in 1908. It is the oldest brick building on campus and now houses the Carrie Meek-James N. Eaton, Sr. Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum, whose exhibits cover African American history in Florida.
Tallahassee refused the Carnegie grant because the library would have had to serve Black patrons, so the money went to the State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students, FAMU's predecessor. The 1908 building by architect William Augustus Edwards rose on the site of Governor William Pope Duval's mansion, which burned in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1978.
The building holds the Carrie Meek-James N. Eaton, Sr. Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum, founded in 1976 by history professor James N. Eaton, who wanted memorabilia shown to students and the public. Exhibits cover the African-American church, campus life at FAMU, politics, science, medicine, inventors and military service. In 2007 the archives were named for Eaton and retired congresswoman Carrie P. Meek, a FAMU graduate.
The archives occupy the former library, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1978. The collection moved partly to the nearby Union Bank building in 1996 and to a new building in 2006, so check which site holds the material you need before visiting.
Tallahassee refused the Carnegie grant because the library would have had to serve Black patrons, so the money went to the State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students instead. The building rose on the site of Governor William Pope Duval's mansion, which burned in 1905.
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