Carnegie Center -- Port Huron Museum
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Carnegie Center -- Port Huron Museum is the main building in the Port Huron, Michigan
museum system. The building was financed by a $40,000.00 donation from Pittsburgh philanthropist and steel entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie
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It opened as the Port Huron Public Library on May 26, 1904. The keynote address was delivered by Melvil Dewey
, State Librarian of New York
, and creator of the Dewey Decimal System.
In 1967, the Port Huron Public Library was moved and reconstituted as the St. Clair County, Michigan
Library System. The new and larger structure is located at 210 McMorran Boulevard.
Thereafter, the original building became the cornerstone of the museum.
The Port Huron Museum
is a series of five elements, namely:
Port Huron, Michigan
Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administratively autonomous. It is joined by the Blue Water Bridge over the St. Clair River to Sarnia,...
museum system. The building was financed by a $40,000.00 donation from Pittsburgh philanthropist and steel entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...
.
It opened as the Port Huron Public Library on May 26, 1904. The keynote address was delivered by Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club....
, State Librarian of New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, and creator of the Dewey Decimal System.
In 1967, the Port Huron Public Library was moved and reconstituted as the St. Clair County, Michigan
St. Clair County, Michigan
-Interstates:* I-69 enters the county from the west, coming from Lansing and Flint, terminating at the approach to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron....
Library System. The new and larger structure is located at 210 McMorran Boulevard.
Thereafter, the original building became the cornerstone of the museum.
The Port Huron Museum
Port Huron Museum
The Port Huron Museum is a series of five museums located in Port Huron, Michigan, USA. It includes the Carnegie Center -- Port Huron Museum, Huron Lightship, Thomas Edison Depot Museum, USCGC Bramble , and Fort Gratiot Lighthouse. The museum was founded in 1967....
is a series of five elements, namely:
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- Carnegie Center -- Port Huron Museum
- Huron LightshipHuron LightshipThe United States lightship Huron is a lightvessel that was launched in 1920. It is now a museum ship moored in Pine Grove Park, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan.-Great Lakes lightships:...
- Thomas Edison Depot MuseumThomas Edison Depot MuseumThe Thomas Edison Depot Museum is located underneath the Blue Water Bridge connecting Port Huron, Michigan to Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The depot is owned and operated by the Port Huron Museum and is the actual depot that inventor Thomas Edison worked out of as a news butcher between 1859 and 1863...
- USCGC Bramble (WLB-392)USCGC Bramble (WLB-392)USCGC Bramble is one of the 39 original seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942-1944 for the United States Coast Guard. Bramble is currently a museum ship, part of Port Huron Museum, located in Port Huron, Michigan. She will be closed to the public effective August 14, 2011, owing to a lack of...
- Fort Gratiot LighthouseFort Gratiot LighthouseFort Gratiot Light, the first lighthouse in the state of Michigan, was constructed north of Fort Gratiot in 1829 by Lucius Lyon, who later became one of Michigan's first U.S. Senators....