Edgewater Public Library | |
Location: | 49 Hudson Avenue Edgewater, New Jersey |
Coordinates: | 40.8297°N -73.9742°W |
Built: | 1915 |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | December 23, 2009 |
Refnum: | 09001154 |
Designated Other1 Name: | New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
Designated Other1 Abbr: | NJRHP |
Designated Other1 Link: | New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
Designated Other1 Date: | January 5, 2009 |
Designated Other1 Number: | 4738[1] |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
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The Edgewater Public Library is located at 48 Hudson Avenue in Edgewater, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Serving a population of 7,677, the library in 2011 included a collection of 20,402 volumes. As a member of the Bergen County Cooperative Library System, a consortium of municipal libraries in the northeastern New Jersey counties of Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, and Essex, it has a circulation of 52,627 items per year.[2]
The building is one of New Jersey's 36 Carnegie libraries, constructed with a grant of $15,000 made March 16, 1915 by the Carnegie Corporation and opened in 1916.[3] [4] Engraved about its entrance is Edgewater Free Library. In 2009, the library was listed on the state and national registers of historic places.[1]