Carnegie Library

[Charles Egleston]

I work in the Carnegie Library as an archivist and cataloger. This is a wonderful old building. If you look at the brickwork in front of the building you can see an arch. I have been told that when the building was a laboratory there was a tunnel under the road to a below ground area for mycology.

The building is wonderfully made. For example, the newel posts on the stairs have a curve just below their crowns where I can put my weight as I turn the corner. It just fits the hand, and though the posts have been installed for a hundred years, there is no give in them.



Charles Egleston