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Built
  
1915

NRHP Reference #
  
09001154

Added to NRHP
  
December 23, 2009

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival

NJRHP #
  
4738

Edgewater Public Library

Location
  
49 Hudson Avenue Edgewater, New Jersey

The Edgewater Public Library is located at 48 Hudson Avenue in Edgewater, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Serving a population of 7,677, the library in 2011 included a collection of 20,402 volumes. As 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.

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. Engraved about its entrance is Edgewater Free Library. In 2009, the library was listed on the state and national registers of historic places.

References

Edgewater Public Library Wikipedia