“There is not such a cradle of democracy on earth as the free public library.” — Andrew Carnegie

Starting in 1881, Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide. Use this mapping tool to locate and learn about the nearly 1,700 Carnegie Libraries that were built in the United States. This map, which is based on primary sources and archival records, is a project of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the grantmaking foundation that Carnegie established in 1911.