6-957: The New Hazlett Theater is the primary occupant of the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny in the Allegheny Center part of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . After the Pittsburgh Public Theater moved to the O'Reilly Theater in 1999, the Hazlett Theater was transformed into the New Hazlett Theater and opened in 2004. Since 2013, the Theater has also been home to the Community Supported Art (CSA) Performance Series, designed to help support new and upcoming artists in
12-489: Is situated in the Allegheny Center neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . It was commissioned in 1886, the first Carnegie library to be commissioned in the United States . Donated to the public by entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie , it was built from 1886 to 1890 on a design by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz . The library and musical conservatory was built of red and grey granite from Maine. The contractor
18-719: The Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. The building also features the first Carnegie Music Hall in the United States. The Music Hall at the Braddock Library would not open until an 1893 expansion of that structure. The running costs were met from local taxes – unlike the Carnegie Library in Braddock, which received an endowment from Carnegie. After a mid-2000s lightning strike, the library
24-587: The PPT moved to the O'Reilly Theater . Due to the decline of traffic, the local arts community supported the rebirth of the Hazlett Theater as the New Hazlett Theater in 2004, where it serves as a valued community resource for performing artists in the Pittsburgh area. 40°27′11″N 80°00′19″W / 40.453095°N 80.005295°W / 40.453095; -80.005295 Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
30-419: The Pittsburgh area. The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny featured the first Carnegie Music Hall in the United States. The Theatre was renovated in 1967 with community-raised money when it was under threat of demolition. In 1980, it was renamed the Hazlett Theater in honor of Theodore L. Hazlett Jr. The Hazlett Theater served as the home to Pittsburgh Public Theater For 24 seasons from 1974 until 1999 when
36-692: Was Vinalhaven, Maine's Bodwell Granite Company, which had furnished granite for major public works including the State, War and Navy Department building in Washington, DC., now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building . It did not open until 1890 thus making it the second Carnegie library to open. The first one to open being the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock , built for steel-workers in Braddock , 9 miles up
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