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Andrew Carnegie, the steel industrialist and philanthropist, paid for the Carnegie Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He offered $50,000 in 1905, later raised to $55,000, if the university raised an endowment of equal value. The library opened in late September 1907 and became Hill Hall after its 1929–1930 conversion into a music building.
Source: UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Hill Hall
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A circular from the University of North Carolina on Andrew Carnegie's offer of fifty thousand dollars toward a library, issued at Chapel Hill in 1906. The title points to the conditions the university had to meet to secure the gift. The piece deals with Carnegie libraries in Chapel Hill and with gifts and legacies to North Carolina libraries.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
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