Hamilton Grange Library

503 West 145th Street | also 505 West 145th Street | Hamilton Heights | built 1906

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1906
McKim, Mead & White design the library as a Florentine palazzo
The firm models the branch on an Italian Renaissance palace, one of 65 Carnegie-funded libraries built for the New York Public Library system and one of eleven that McKim, Mead & White itself designs. Construction runs from 1905 to 1906 on a site in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem. The design later earns the building spots on both the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, added in 1981.
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1907
January 8
The Hamilton Grange branch library opens with Carnegie money
Built in 1905–06 and opened on January 8, 1907, the branch was one of 65 New York libraries paid for by Andrew Carnegie, and one of eleven designed by McKim, Mead & White. The firm modeled it on a Florentine palazzo. It is named for The Grange, Alexander Hamilton's nearby country house of 1802.
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1970
The city designates the Hamilton Grange branch a landmark
New York City designated the library a landmark in 1970, and it joined the state and national registers of historic places in 1981. The interior was substantially modernized in 1975, and a 2022 project replaced non-historic entrance parts while keeping the original cast-iron details.
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